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World Hearing Day is a yearly event to promote actions to prevent hearing damage. Avoiding exposure to loud noise can help prevent noise-induced hearing loss. [95] 18% of adults exposed to loud noise at work for five years or more report hearing loss in both ears as compared to 5.5% of adults who were not exposed to loud noise at work. [96]
Global Audiology is an open access platform designed to enhance understanding of audiology education and practice worldwide. [1] Despite the global (and individual burden) of hearing disorders the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a substantial gap between the need and access to hearing care services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. [2]
Otorhinolaryngology, audiology. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a hearing impairment resulting from exposure to loud sound. People may have a loss of perception of a narrow range of frequencies or impaired perception of sound including sensitivity to sound or ringing in the ears. [ 1 ] When exposure to hazards such as noise occur at work ...
Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease [3] an inherited neurological disorder with delayed onset that can affect the ears as well as other organs. The hearing loss in this condition is often ANSD (auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder) a neural cause of hearing loss. Muckle–Wells syndrome, a rare inherited autoinflammatory disorder, can lead to ...
Audiology (from Latin audīre, "to hear"; and from Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. [1] [2] Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. [3] By employing various testing strategies (e.g. behavioral hearing tests, otoacoustic emission ...
Auditory processing disorder (APD), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome or auditory disability with normal hearing (ADN), is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. [ 2 ] Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the ear, but cannot process the information they hear in the same way ...
Audiology, immunology. Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) was first defined by Dr. Brian McCabe in a landmark paper describing an autoimmune loss of hearing. [2] The disease results in progressive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) that acts bilaterally and asymmetrically, and sometimes affects an individual's vestibular system.
Nonsyndromic deafness. Nonsyndromic deafness is hearing loss that is not associated with other signs and symptoms. In contrast, syndromic deafness involves hearing loss that occurs with abnormalities in other parts of the body. Nonsyndromic deafness constitutes 75% of all hearing loss cases, and an estimated 100 genes are thought to be linked ...