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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Verdana"> <CENTER><h5>Medical Hear IT - hearing impaired patients ear diseases Non-commercial information and advice for GP’s and family physicians to assist in the counselling of hearing impaired patients</h5><br> <a href="http://www.medical.hear-it.org"><img src="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/pics/logo.jpg" ALT="Medical Hear IT hard of hearing patients patients hearing loss hearing tests ear diseases otitis media otoslerosis acoustic trauma tinnitus tinnitus patients symptoms hearing" border="0"></a><br><br> <TABLE WIDTH="700" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="0"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="0%" valign="top"><IMG SRC="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/pics/web_p.gif" WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=120 ALT="Medical Hear IT patients hearing loss hearing tests ear diseases otitis media otoslerosis acoustic trauma tinnitus tinnitus patients"> <H6>ear diseases</h6> <font face=Verdana size=1 color=#990000> Non-commercial information and advice for GP’s and family physicians to assist in the counselling of hearing impaired patients.</font><BR> <HR size=1 width=73% align=left noshade> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing_impaired_patients/index.html">[hearing impaired patients]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing_diseases/index.html">[ear diseases]</A><br><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hard_of_hearing_patients/index.html">[hard of hearing patients]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/patients_hearing_loss/index.html">[patients hearing loss]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/otitis_media/index.html">[otitis media]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/ear diseases/index.html">[ear diseases]</A><BR><BR> <font><A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org">[HOME]</A><br> </TD> <TD WIDTH="70%" valign="top"> <div align="left"> approximately 17 per cent of the population is likely to cause difficulty regarding speech discrimination.<BR><BR> Quality of life<BR> Many people who are suffering from untreated hearing impairment may experience that their reduced hearing ability ear diseases affects their quality of life.<BR><BR> At the same time, using hearing aids improves the quality of life in most cases and reduces many of the negative effects of hearing loss.<BR><BR> It has also been documented ear diseases that hearing improves fast and that people typically get their first hearing aids when they realise that their hearing has deteriorated or when their family keeps telling them that they have to have something done about their hearing.<BR><BR> ear diseases On these pages you can read about surveys regarding the quality of life and hearing aids.<BR><BR> Noise - the main reason for bad hearing?<BR> Surveys indicate that noise seems to ear diseases be the main reason for bad hearing among adults.<BR><BR> Figures from the National Centre for Health Statistics, USA, for the year 1994 show that in 33.7% of the cases noise is reported to be the main reason for becoming ear diseases deaf or hard-of-hearing. Another 28% reported that their loss of hearing was due to old age, while 17.1% reported that the hearing loss was due to an infection or injury. Only 4.4% reported the presence of hearing loss at birth. In 16.8%<br><br><A HREF="mailto:info@medical.hear-it.org">[Email: info@medical.hear-it.org]</A><br><br></div> aaltazxgear diseases </TD> </TR> </font> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY>