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Is there an association with cognitive impairment and hearing loss in a developing country?

3 November 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Hearing loss (HL) is the third leading chronic health condition among older adults. Most studies investigating HL and cognition have been performed in high-income countries. Risk factors for dementia (eg. hypertension, midlife hearing loss, obesity and physical inactivity) are more...
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Are cardiovascular risk factors associated with hearing loss?

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors are associated with microvascular damage that can impair molecular transport across capillary walls and cause inflammation and oxidative stress that may damage cochlear structure and function. This study determined, among a population-based sample of Canadian...
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Newborn sensorineural hearing loss – what is the incidence?

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
In the last two decades, the introduction of newborn screening for hearing loss has dramatically lowered the average age of newborn hearing loss diagnosis to around two to three months of age. The benefits of early diagnosis are manifold, enabling...

Scientific advances in mapping syndromic hearing loss

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
From more than 22000 genes that we humans have, approximately 3000 genes are associated with human communication. There are tens of syndromes which have been identified to be accompanied by hearing loss. Disorders of almost every organ of the body...

Detecting hearing loss in the military: are the current methods adequate?

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
A team at the University of Southampton have been funded by the Ministry of Defence to investigate how to improve the assessment of auditory fitness for duty in the UK Armed Forces. Matt Blyth talks us through the current methods...

The search for pharmacological treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Where are we in our search for a hearing restoration grail? Nicola Robas leads us through the map pieces discovered in creating a pharmaceutical answer to hearing loss and tinnitus. Together, hearing loss and tinnitus affect over one in six...

Lessons from the outcomes of children with hearing loss study

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss (OCHL) study of 300 children with hearing loss has targeted several factors that are under the control of audiologists and parents. Drs McCreery and Walker discuss how these ‘lessons learned’ can lead to...

The importance of hearing aid validation in infants with hearing loss

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Hearing aid validation requires that speech discrimination be measured, yet there are no validated methods of measuring speech discrimination in infants and toddlers. Prof Uhler describes two related approaches that are showing promise. Speech discrimination is the gold standard for...

Hearing loss and cognition: something to think about

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Irace, Chern and Golub propose causal and non-causal mechanisms for the links between hearing loss and dementia, concluding with a discussion of several proactive measures available to help preserve neurocognitive health in older adults with hearing loss. What is age-related...

COOL therapy for cisplatin-induced hearing loss

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Cisplatin is a commonly used cancer therapy, with nearly 50% of patients undergoing chemotherapy receiving cisplatin as part of their regimen [1]. Depending on the dose, incidence of hearing loss has been reported as 12-100% in adults, and 37-94% in...

Rapid genetic testing to avoid hearing loss in neonates

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Thousands of newborn babies could avoid a lifetime of hearing loss thanks to a new rapid genetic test. In this article, we learn how. We have demonstrated for the first time that a rapid genetic test from a cheek swab...

Platinum-based chemotherapy, tinnitus and hearing loss

10 March 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Fortunately, the five-year survival rate of adult cancers is increasing. However, we are seeing for the first time the lasting effects of cancer treatments on people. As more people live with the long-term effects of treatment, such as chemotherapy, it is imperative to understand the impact it has on quality of life.