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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine whether women who use estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) differ from women not using ERT on several measures of speech understanding. Participants (n = 38, 60 to 74 years) completed a battery of tests including pure-tone audiometry, the Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI) test, a test of auditory-only and auditory-visual sentence recognition, and a measure of speech understanding in reverberation. In general, women who used ERT were better able to understand distorted speech than were nonusers of ERT.
The author thanks Liz Adams for her help with conducting this study and Susan Sturgeon of the University of Massachusetts Bioepidemiology Department for her input on this manuscript. This project was supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts. Portions of these data were presented at the 1998 American Academy of Audiology annual conference in Miami Beach, Florida.
Notes
Note. Data in the table are group means with the standard error in parentheses. All values are in percent correct except high-frequency pure-tone average, which is dB HL.