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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Verdana"> <CENTER><h5>Medical Hear IT - hearing disorders poor hearing 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 ear diseases hearing diseases hearing impaired patients poor hearing hard of hearing patients patients hearing loss hearing tests otitis media otoslerosis acoustic trauma" 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 diseases hearing impaired patients poor hearing hard of hearing patients patients hearing loss hearing tests otitis media otoslerosis"> <H6>poor hearing</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_disorders/index.html">[hearing disorders]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing_damages/index.html">[poor hearing]</A><br><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/ear_diseases/index.html">[ear diseases]</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org/search/hearing_diseases/index.html">[hearing 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/poor hearing/index.html">[poor hearing]</A><BR><BR> <font><A HREF="http://www.medical.hear-it.org">[HOME]</A><br> </TD> <TD WIDTH="70%" valign="top"> <div align="left"> and the number increases every year.<BR><BR> Approximately half of all hearing-impaired people are of working age, and it is especially those people aged between 40 and 60 that begin to suffer from reduced hearing. The main poor hearing reasons for hearing impairment are old age and exposure to excessive noise, but a hearing loss may also be inherited.<BR><BR> For people aged 60 or over, every third person suffers from hearing loss, and when people poor hearing reach the age of 80 this figure rises to 50 per cent.<BR><BR> At the same time, surveys show that the use of hearing aids will improve the patient’s quality of life as well as the quality of poor hearing the patient’s hearing.<BR><BR> More and more hearing-impaired people<BR> More than 560 million hearing-impaired people in 2005.<BR><BR> Nobody knows exactly how many hearing-impaired people there are in the poor hearing world. Professor Adrian Davis from the British MRC Institute of Hearing Research estimates that the total number of people suffering from hearing loss of more than 25 dB in the world will be more than 560 million people in 2005.<BR><BR> poor hearing In the developed world the number of hearing-impaired people will be about 190 million. In Europe, there will be more than 80 million hearing-impaired people in 2005. The number of hearing-impaired people in USA and Canada will be more than 30 million.<BR><BR><br><br><A HREF="mailto:info@medical.hear-it.org">[Email: info@medical.hear-it.org]</A><br><br></div> aaltazxgpoor hearing </TD> </TR> </font> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY>