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Severe‐to‐Profound Hearing Loss and Mental Health: Initial Evidence That Cochlear Implantation Helps Alleviate Symptoms of Anxiety and Stress

Clinical Otolaryngology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Mental‐health issues accounted for 418 million disability‐adjusted life years in 2019, costing the world economy approximately $5 trillion. Untreated hearing loss is a well‐known modifiable risk factor for mental‐health issues, with severe‐to‐profound hearing loss having the largest impact. Therefore, treatment of severe‐to‐profound
Paul McIlhiney, Osvaldo P. Almeida, Catherine M. Sucher, Robert H. Eikelboom, Dona M. P. Jayakody   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hearing loss among hypertensive patients

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2019
Background Hypertension is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Hypertensives have been observed to have elevated hearing thresholds in various studies.
Stephen S. Yikawe, Samuel U. Uguru, Joseph H. Solomon, Andrew M. Adamu, Frederick Damtong, Kingsley Osisi, Foluso M. Adeyeye   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal analysis of the audiological phenotype in osteogenesis imperfecta : a follow-up study [PDF]

, 2018
Objective. This prospective study involved a longitudinal analysis of the progression of hearing thresholds in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. Methods.
Dhooge, Ingeborg, Martens, Sarie, Swinnen, Freya   +2 more
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Cochlear Implantation in Australia: A Retrospective Analysis of 23 Years of Activity

Clinical Otolaryngology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To report the number of cochlear implantation procedures and recipients in Australia since 2000 by age, and to estimate the adult uptake of cochlear implants. Methods This was a retrospective analysis of data, using publicly available data on private and public hospital procedures undertaken in Australia between 2000/01 and 2022/23.
Robert H. Eikelboom, Catherine M. Sucher, Sandra R. Bellekom, Marcus D. Atlas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hearing Disorders in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Patiants

Journal of Rehabilitation, 2003
Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that causes sudden deaf. In this research auditory disorders were studied in the patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Ghasem Mohammadkhani, Haleh Majidi, Mahin Sedaei, Saeed Sarough-Farahani, Shohreh Jalaei   +4 more
doaj  

Variabilidade teste-reteste na audiometria tonal: comparação entre dois transdutores

Audiology: Communication Research
Objetivo Caracterizar a variabilidade teste-reteste com fones supra-aurais e fones de inserção e comparar os limiares auditivos tonais entre os transdutores.Métodos Foram selecionados 74 indivíduos de ambos os gêneros, com limiares auditivos normais e ...
Lilian Aguiar de Mello, Roberta Almeida Machado da Silva, Daniela Gil   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: an unexpected and early presentation of acute stroke [PDF]

, 2015
We report a case of acute ischemic stroke presented as acute bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. 47 year-old man presented with bilateral hearing loss for one day. Pure tone audiometry revealed moderate bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
Boo, Yang Liang, Ching, Siew Mooi, Hoo, Fan Kee, Mohd Sazlly Lim, Sazlyna, Ramachandran, Vasudeven, Wan Sulaiman, Wan Aliaa   +5 more
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Tone-in-noise detection deficits in elderly patients with clinically normal hearing [PDF]

, 2019
One of the most common complaints among the elderly is the inability to understand speech in noisy environments. In many cases, these deficits are due to age-related hearing loss; however, some of the elderly that have difficulty hearing in noise have ...
Cappelli, Giampietro, De Vincentiis, Marco, Greco, Antonio, Neri, Ilaria, Ralli, Massimo, Salvi, Richard, Sheppard, Adam   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Cognitive and Behavioural Associations of Visual and Hearing Impairments Across the Lifespan in People With Down Syndrome, a Scoping Review

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Hearing and visual impairments are common in individuals with Down syndrome (DS), yet it remains unclear whether sensory impairments are associated with cognitive and behavioural functioning such as language, memory and socialisation. This literature review examines those associations.
Nicolo J. Betoni, Cynthia M. Okamoto, Ira T. Lott, Christy L. Hom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrast sensitivity test and conventional and high frequency audiometry: information beyond that required to prescribe lenses and headsets [PDF]

, 2008
In Optometry and in Audiology, the routine tests to prescribe correction lenses and headsets are respectively the visual acuity test (the first chart with letters was developed by Snellen in 1862) and conventional pure tone audiometry (the first ...
C. Angarano, C. M. Boccio, F. Luzzi, G. Martin, J. M. Simon, Jaime Frejlich, M. Lanusse, M. V. Ranieri, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, S. A. Comastri, S. Dominguez   +10 more
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