The paper's* lead author, Murdoch Children's Research Institute's (MCRI) Dr Valerie Sung, says researchers world-wide can use the databank to answer questions around childhood
hearing loss.
Chin-Mei Liu, Ph.D., and Charles Tzu-Chi Lee, Ph.D., of the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, studied 16,270 participants (9,286 men; mean age, 65.2 years) newly diagnosed with
hearing loss during Jan.
The study published in the JAMA Network Open last month tried to find a link between
hearing loss and dementia in later years.
Hearing loss is the world's fourth-leading cause of years lived with disability.
"A sensorineural
hearing loss is a
hearing loss that occurs in the inner ear and is usually a result of damage to the hair cells in the inner ear.
Risk factors such as socio-economical, duration of disease and occupational stress influence the characteristic audiologic alteration in the patients of CSOM and also contribute in depression.1,4 Sensonary or auditory modification such as higher bilateral auditory threshold, activation of auditory cortex may explore the sensory modulation for depression associated in conductive and sensoneural
hearing loss in patients of CSOM.5,6 A very interesting study conducted on tinnitus patients with
hearing loss to evaluate the co-morbidities of depression, stress and anxiety, taking depression, anxiety and stress scale (DASS) as tool to determine the correlation of depression, stress and anxiety with
hearing loss in tinnitus patients.
The charity Action on
Hearing Loss has been collating experiences of people with sensory loss in using public services including housing, social services and GP surgeries.
Getting an early screening can prevent
hearing loss, he added.
Action on
Hearing Loss, formerly RNID, has been supporting deaf people and people with
hearing loss and tinnitus since 1911.
He said it is one of the most common conditions affecting elderly people and age-related
hearing loss most often occurs in both ears, affecting them equally if not treated properly.
He explained that citizens suffering from
hearing loss could face psychological and physical problems in some stages of life if not treated.
'Generally, the hearing disability occur in the society due to the trend of inter-family marriages but sound of generators, vehicles and factories are also leading risk factors of
hearing loss', he added.
hearing loss - partial or complete loss of hearing