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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Verdana"> <CENTER><h5>Medical Hear IT - hard of hearing patients hearing 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 patients hearing loss hearing tests otitis media hearing diseases otoslerosis acoustic trauma tinnitus tinnitus patients symptoms hearing identifying 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 hearing tests otitis media hearing diseases otoslerosis acoustic trauma tinnitus tinnitus patients symptoms hearing"> <H6>hearing 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/hard_of_hearing_patients/index.html">[hard of hearing patients]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing_impaired_patients/index.html">[hearing diseases]</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/hearing_tests/index.html">[hearing tests]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/otoslerosis/index.html">[otoslerosis]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing diseases/index.html">[hearing 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"> Noise - the main reason for bad hearing?<BR> Surveys indicate that noise seems to be the main reason for bad hearing among adults.<BR><BR> Figures from the National Centre for Health Statistics, USA, hearing diseases for the year 1994 show that in 33.7% of the cases noise is reported to be the main reason for becoming deaf or hard-of-hearing. Another 28% reported that their loss of hearing was due to old age, hearing diseases 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% of the cases of bad hearing, the hearing impairment was caused by hearing diseases something else, including inherited diseases, which was not present at birth.<BR><BR> This data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, series 10, number 188.<BR><BR> Facts about hearing impairment<BR> Hearing hearing diseases impairment is one of the world’s most common impairments. Approximately 500 million people worldwide are suffering from hearing loss.<BR><BR> The two main causes of hearing loss are ageing and excessive noise, but many diseases may also result in hearing loss. Hearing hearing diseases loss cannot normally be cured, nor will hearing aids restore your patient’s hearing. But hearing aids do help - and can help most of your patients to hear almost normally.<BR><BR> On these pages you can read about the different types of<br><br><A HREF="mailto:info@medical.hear-it.org">[Email: info@medical.hear-it.org]</A><br><br></div> aaltazxghearing diseases </TD> </TR> </font> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY>