background and aims: this is a pilot study investigated the prevalence of hearing impairment and the impact of the known risk factors for hearing loss on infants at risk born in kuwait. methods: two hundred infants with risk of hearing impairment who met the joint committee on infants hearing (1990) criteria were screened. all newborns were included in this study if they had hospital stay for m...

Military Service Members are often exposed to high levels of occupational noise, solvents, and other exposures that can be damaging to the auditory system. Little is known about hearing loss and how it progresses in Veterans following military service. This epidemiology study is designed to evaluate and monitor a cohort of Veterans for 20 years or more to determine how hearing loss changes over...

UNLABELLED Noise-induced hearing loss has been studied for many years and today many experts also investigate the synergic action of chemical products, since they can be potentially ototoxic. AIM to investigate the audiological findings in workers exposed to occupational noise and pesticide and to compare it to data from noise-exposed workers. STUDY DESIGN Clinical retrospective. MATERIAL...

Conflict of interest: non existent certain cognitive and emotional aspects2-4. This kind of handicap hinders access to and use of healthcare in general, yielding potential adverse effects on health and survival5. The prevalence of hearing loss is on the rise in the population at large, probably because of the ageing of the population and increased exposure to noise. There are concerns that hear...

regardless of severity, earlier intervention to correct hearing loss in children improves speech development and conversational abilities. a cross-sectional study was performed on 230 neonates who were at risk of hearing loss in tehran university of medical sciences hospitals between september 2000 and february 2002. hearing was examined before the 3rd month by auditory brainstem responses (abr...

Introduction: Children learn to communicate by hearing sounds. If there is hearing loss, the cognitive and speaking abilities and language learning will deteriorate. Early detection and intervention are important factors in the successful treatment of hearing loss in children. Hearing loss (HL) is divided into two main groups: conductive hearing loss (CHL) and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)...

OBJECTIVE Occupational hearing loss is common in the industrialized world. Road noise is a major contributor to perceived environmental noise. The objective of this study was to assess hearing loss in rickshaw drivers due to rickshaw noise. METHODS Hearing loss in rickshaw drivers and taxi drivers of Karachi who were 50 years of age or younger was estimated, with a Smith Hearing Screening (SH...