Objective Tinnitus is considered to be highly heterogeneous with respect to its etiology, its
comorbidities and the response to specific interventions. Subtyping is recommended, but it
remains to be determined which criteria are useful, since it has not yet been clearly
demonstrated whether and to which extent etiologic factors, comorbid states and
interventional response are related to each other and are thus applicable for subtyping
tinnitus. Analyzing the Tinnitus Research Initiative Database we differentiated patients …

OBJECTIVE: Tinnitus is considered to be highly heterogeneous with respect to its etiology,
its comorbidities and the response to specific interventions. Subtyping is recommended, but
it remains to be determined which criteria are useful, since it has not yet been clearly
demonstrated whether and to which extent etiologic factors, comorbid states and
interventional response are related to each other and are thus applicable for subtyping
tinnitus. Analyzing the Tinnitus Research Initiative Database we differentiated patients …