Married people were also at higher risk of noise-induced hearing loss compared to non-married people.
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Older people do need them, but they have an advantage over children with hearing loss.
Children don't have that experience, and untreated hearing loss will severely hurt their development.
Symptoms often include headaches that worsen over time, hearing loss, changes in vision and memory loss.
It is often caused by exposure to loud music and can be accompanied by hearing loss.
"Music-induced hearing loss is preventable, " said Dr. Gail Gudmundsen, Managing Director, Audiology Division, at Etymotic.
It is understood the issues of equal pay and hearing loss claims are a sticking point.
Passive smoking increased their risk of hearing loss across all sound frequencies by about a third.
Overall, nearly 700 people, or 13.2 percent of the sample, had noise-induced hearing loss in Djalilian's study.
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IEDs cause the top four injuries to veterans, including hearing loss, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
The only disability to decrease was moderate-to-profound hearing loss, which went down 31%.
Those who survive might suffer serious complications including brain damage and hearing loss.
The hearing loss was noticed a year ago but had worsened since then.
Individuals may suffer from high levels of fatigue, muscle or heart weakness, diabetes, strokes, or vision and hearing loss.
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It is an FDA-approved hearing aid, but it is sold online and preprogrammed for typical mild to moderate hearing loss.
When private insurance does pay, it typically covers the cost of an exam to assess hearing loss, and that's about it.
Conductive hearing loss can often be caused by malformations of the external or middle ear or by severe middle ear infections.
Dr Eric Karran, from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said the exact connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline was still unknown.
Action on Hearing Loss says overexposure to loud music can trigger tinnitus.
He said people with hearing loss used a hearing aid in only 15% of cases in the US "so it is very undertreated".
Eventually, there may be the possibility that people with some hearing loss could be fitted with these devices to monitor their hearing-loss progression.
He said brain scans had shown that hearing loss in patients was also down to the way a dying brain tried to handle sound.
He was sent back for his third tour despite the nightmares, depression, major hearing loss and painful injuries to his back and both feet.
It could detect if babies have a hearing loss on day one rather than having to discover if there was a problem much later on.
Her daughter Alyssa, born in 2009, is one of the 13, 000 or so children born in the U.S. each year with congenital hearing loss.
Twelve guides will aid people with both sight and hearing loss with a range of issues, including the use of computers, telephones and public transport.
Hearing loss may be a small pothole in the road, but that doesn't mean it should stop you from getting where you want to go.
The reduction in performance on these tasks associated with a 25-decibel hearing loss (classified as "mild") was equivalent to an ageing effect of seven years in cognitive abilities.
The presence of a non-obtrusive means of sound amplification creates the possibility that the device could be used as a hearing aid for those with low level hearing loss.
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