Age-Related Hearing Impairment
Expression levels of the <em>BAK1</em> and <em>BCL2</em> genes highlight the role of apoptosis in age-related hearing impairment
... Abstract: Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) is a progressive and a common sensory disorder in the elderly and will become an increasingly important clinical problem given the growing ...
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Genetic and Environmental Factors in Age-Related Hearing Impairment
... Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) is a common condition with complex etiology but a recognized genetic ...audiogram-determined hearing ability lie in the range ...for age = ...
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BMI over the lifecourse and hearing ability at age 45 years: a population based study
... Hearing impairment is the most common sensory deficit in developed countries (Steel ...of hearing impairment rises throughout the life course, affecting approximately 1-2 per thousand ...
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A protocol to evaluate the impact of involvement of older people with dementia and age-related hearing and/or vision impairment in a multi-site European research study
... RUGs meet face-to-face every 3 months, as well as ad-hoc individual meetings with up to 2 RUG members (with the option of postal, telephone, e-mail communica- tion, or in person) for any additional involvement tasks ...
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Impact of stimulus related factors and hearing impairment on listening effort as indicated by pupil dilation
... for hearing-impaired (HI) compared to normal-hearing (NH) ...between hearing-status, a broad range of SNRs corresponding to sentence recognition performance varying from 0 to 100% correct, and ...
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Study protocol, rationale and recruitment in a European multi-centre randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy and safety of azithromycin maintenance therapy for 6 months in primary ciliary dyskinesia
... inhomogeneity, hearing impairment, and symptoms (respiratory, sinus, ears and hearing) measured on a PCD-specific health-related quality of life instrument, and to assess the safety of ...
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Gene dose of apolipoprotein E and age-related hearing loss
... nitive impairment) associated with age-related disorders and APOE genotype, which suggests that these confounders did not significantly influence the effect of APOE on hearing ...between ...
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Awareness and Assessment of Work-related Hearing Impairment among Dental Professionals in Kano-Nigeria
... presumptive hearing impairment by 3-20 times and may produce environmental noise levels more than 85 dB(A) if they are not properly maintained ...the age of the dental equipment is also a ...
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Hearing aid fitting in older persons with hearing impairment: the influence of cognitive function, age, and hearing loss on hearing aid benefit
... and related to the outcome of neuropsychological testing addressing various cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and fluid intelligence, as well as to the auditory status (ie, hearing threshold) ...
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Vision impairment and dual sensory problems in middle age
... year age-group using 2001 UK Census data were linked to each ...systematically related to the outcome variable nor any other ...the hearing or vision status of ...
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Instrument development and validation of a quality scale: ICT enabled devices for differently Abled students
... of impairment by improved activity and greater participation, to promote inclusion of students with ...with hearing, vision, communication, physical and intellectual ...(mean age was 28) and about ...
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Age-Related Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Decline in Geriatric
... Communication impairment caused by hearing loss can also lead to social isolation in geriatric, and epidemiologic and neuroanatomic studies (Bennett et ...with hearing loss only appeared to increase ...
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Noise Removal by Spectral Subtraction & Subband Amplification for Hearing Aid By Using Matlab & Simulink
... latency. Hearing aid is used for the persons with the hearing impairment to improve the signal quality and amplification of it so that the person can hear in this paper the noise in the speech(audio) ...
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Congenital Absence of the Oval Window: Radiologic Diagnosis and Associated Anomalies
... of hearing loss ...conductive hearing loss from birth without prior episodes of otitis media, normal findings at otoscopic examination, and sug- gestive radiologic findings make the diagnosis of congenital ...
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An assessment of validity and responsiveness of generic measures of health-related quality of life in hearing impairment
... health- related quality of life of patients with a hearing impair- ...‘hearing impairment/disorder’, ‘euroqol/EQ-5D’, ‘hui3’ and ‘sf6d’, all with alternative ...a hearing ...
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Sex bias in basic and preclinical age-related hearing loss research
... of age on hearing loss since the auditory environment and other potentially interacting factors can be carefully con- ...with age compared to males [19, ...
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No dramatic age-related loss of hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons in Bcl-2 over-expression mice or Bax null mice
... mice, age-related loss of auditory neurons -hair cells and SGNs - cannot be delayed by Bax deletion or over-expression of ...whether age-related neuronal loss occurs through a typical ...
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Physical chronic conditions, multimorbidity and sedentary behavior amongst middle-aged and older adults in six low- and middle-income countries
... edentulism, hearing problems, hypertension, stroke, visual impairment) were ...have hearing problems if the interviewer ob- served this condition during the ...Visual impairment was defined as ...
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Mutations in LRRK2 potentiate age-related impairment of autophagic flux
... LRRK2 also exhibits a biology that is appears linked to vesicular dynamics. LRRK2 is associated with vesicles and endosomal uptake [33, 36]. WT LRRK2 showed a strong ability to increase autophagy throughout the life- ...
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Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) in Bore Well Personnel in India
... protective devices when working. The audiometric test results showed that he could not hear 25dB sounds at several different frequencies. He said, ‘From the beginning I saw this profession has more hazards than others ...
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