To examine the association between tinnitus and chronic headache in adults aged 35-70 years in southwestern Iran.
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
Audiologists should consider routinely asking patients with tinnitus about chronic headache history, as this study adds population-level evidence of a co-occurrence worth flagging for referral — though the cross-sectional design limits causal inference.
Identifying shared risk factors between chronic headache and tinnitus could improve screening protocols and encourage closer collaboration between audiology and neurology clinics.
- 01Population-based cross-sectional study of adults aged 35–70 in an Arab community in southwest Iran.
- 02Chronic headache was significantly associated with tinnitus prevalence in this cohort.
- 03Cross-sectional design limits causal conclusions about direction of the relationship.
- 04Findings are consistent with shared neurological or vascular mechanisms between headache and tinnitus.
- 05Results may support routine co-screening for tinnitus in headache clinics and vice versa.
Chronic headache is significantly associated with tinnitus prevalence in an Arab community in southwest Iran.
studysupported- PMID
- 42664622
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.amjoto.2026.104916.
- Journal
- American Journal of Otolaryngology
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 3
- Population
- Adults aged 35–70 in an Arab community in southwest Iran
- Intervention
- Exposure: presence of chronic headache
- Comparator
- Adults without chronic headache
Primary outcomes
Prevalence and association of tinnitus in individuals with chronic headache