BackgroundEstablished associations between hearing loss and cognitive decline were primarily defined by pure-tone audiometry, which reflects peripheral hearing ability.
Kening Jiang +18 more
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Determination and evaluation of clinically efficient stopping criteria for the multiple auditory steady-state response technique [PDF]
Background: Although the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) technique utilizes objective statistical detection algorithms to estimate behavioural hearing thresholds, the audiologist still has to decide when to terminate ASSR recordings introducing ...
D'Haenens, Wendy +2 more
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Prevention of cisplatin-induced hearing loss in children: Informing the design of future clinical trials. [PDF]
Cisplatin is an essential chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of many pediatric cancers. Unfortunately, cisplatin-induced hearing loss (CIHL) is a common, clinically significant side effect with life-long ramifications, particularly for young ...
Chang, Kay +9 more
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Mobile phones: a trade-off between speech intelligibility and exposure to noise levels and to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields [PDF]
When making phone calls, cellphone and smartphone users are exposed to radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and sound pressure simultaneously. Speech intelligibility during mobile phone calls is related to the sound pressure level of speech
Aerts, Sam +7 more
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Hearing Aids and Audiological Services for Children Questions & Answers, [PDF]
Question and Answer information for Children with hearing problems, with hearing aids and audiological ...
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Evaluation of hearing and cochlear function by audiometric testing in patients with hyperemesis gravidarum [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to investigate cochlear functions in patients with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).METHODS: Twenty-nine HG patients (58 ears) and 31 healthy control subjects (62 ears) were included.
Demirtas, Ömer +5 more
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Customized Versus Noncustomized Sound Therapy for Treatment of Tinnitus: A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial. [PDF]
ObjectivesTo determine the effectiveness of a customized sound therapy and compare its effectiveness to that of masking with broadband noise.MethodsSubjects were randomized to receive either customized sound therapy or broadband noise for 2 hours per day
Djalilian, Hamid R +4 more
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Speech perception performance of subjects with type I diabetes mellitus in noise
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder of various origins that occurs when the pancreas fails to produce insulin in sufficient quantities or when the organism fails to respond to this hormone in an efficient manner ...
Bárbara Cristiane Sordi Silva +5 more
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Development of Singapore English speech audiometry test materials
Background Speech audiometry is utilised for diagnostic and rehabilitative purposes. Speech audiometry involves materials linguistic in nature. The ideal protocol is to have a tester who is a native or at least a fluent speaker of that language to ...
Christel Li Hui Chue +3 more
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The Benefit of Binaural Hearing Among Listeners with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The performance of binaural processing may be disturbed in the presence of hearing loss, especially of sensorineural type. To assess the impact of hearing loss on speech perception in noise regarding binaural processing, series of speech recognition ...
Anna PASTUSIAK +3 more
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