Journal article
Promoting healthy hearing over the lifespan
Auditory and vestibular research, v 30(2), pp 74-94
01 Jan 2021
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Abstract
Background and Aim: Comorbid conditions and unhealthy lifestyles are risk factors for auditory dysfunction, including age-related hear-ing loss. With a focus on adults, this paper des-cribes a new approach to hearing health care that aims to prevent or mitigate hearing loss and rela-ted disorders, like tinnitus. Accurate diagnosis and effective management of hearing loss is best achieved with a patient-specific test battery that includes sensitive measures of peripheral and central auditory function. Recent Findings: Within the past decade, peer reviewed research publications confirm the imp-ortance of comorbid conditions like diabetes, car-diovascular disease, and cognitive impairment as risk factors for hearing loss, tinnitus, and audi-tory processing disorders. Unhealthy lifestyles like poor diet, smoking, and chronic exposure to high intensity sound also contribute importantly to risk for hearing loss and tinnitus. In collabora-tion with physicians and other health care profe-ssionals, audiologists who recognize and address these risk factors for hearing loss have an oppor-tunity to prevent or mitigate hearing loss in adult patients. Conclusion: The traditional model for hearing health care service delivery relies on a rather outdated and simplistic protocol for evaluating and describing hearing loss, and a technology-focused approach for management. This paper offers an evidence-based rationale for expanding the test battery for diagnosing hearing loss, and a multidisciplinary intervention approach.
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- Title
- Promoting healthy hearing over the lifespan
- Creators
- James W. Hall - Salus University
- Publication Details
- Auditory and vestibular research, v 30(2), pp 74-94
- Publisher
- Tehran Univ Medical Sciences
- Number of pages
- 21
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Audiology - Distance
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000891083100002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85106561657
- Other Identifier
- 991022019495004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Audiology & Speech-language Pathology
- Otorhinolaryngology