11 Facts About Hearing loss

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About half of hearing loss globally is preventable through public health measures.

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The terms hearing impairment or hearing loss are often viewed negatively as emphasizing what people cannot do, although the terms are still regularly used when referring to deafness in medical contexts.

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3.

In literature, age-related hearing loss is found to be significantly associated with incident falls.

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Post-lingual deafness is hearing loss that is sustained after the acquisition of language, which can occur due to disease, trauma, or as a side-effect of a medicine.

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Typically, hearing loss is gradual and often detected by family and friends of affected individuals long before the patients themselves will acknowledge the disability.

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Prelingual deafness is profound hearing loss that is sustained before the acquisition of language, which can occur due to a congenital condition or through hearing loss before birth or in early infancy.

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Identification of a hearing loss is usually conducted by a general practitioner medical doctor, otolaryngologist, certified and licensed audiologist, school or industrial audiometrist, or other audiometric technician.

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Diagnosis of the cause of a hearing loss is carried out by a specialist physician or otorhinolaryngologist.

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The severity of a hearing loss is ranked according to ranges of nominal thresholds in which a sound must be so it can be detected by an individual.

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10.

People with unilateral hearing loss or single-sided deafness have difficulty in hearing conversation on their impaired side, localizing sound, and understanding speech in the presence of background noise.

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11.

World Hearing loss Day is a yearly event to promote actions to prevent hearing damage.

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