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Re: [AUDITORY] Will I be deaf?
Hi Jan, Trevor,
According to http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/pages/quick.aspx, the prevalence of disabling hearing loss is 50% for the population > 75 years.
Life expectancy is > 80 years for rich countries (http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-life-expectancy-map) and increasing. Indeed it will eventually get bad for many of us…
Alain
> On 26 Jan 2016, at 08:42, Jan Schnupp <jan.schnupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Trevor,
>
> you might find this little demo of old age hearing loss interesting:
> http://auditoryneuroscience.com/HearingLossSimulator
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> If you click on "show background info" you'll see what data this demo is based on and what it does. The average 80 year old hearing is really scarily bad and I secretly hope that my demo is an exaggeration, but it is based on a peer reviewed study Lee and colleagues http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15692300 which looks well conducted, so unless the population they had access to is somewhat unrepresentative of ... well .. us (clutching at straws here?)... then I guess the answer is probably yes, if you live long enough the odds are 50% or more that your hearing will get really quite bad at the end.
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> Best,
>
> Jan
>
> On 25 January 2016 at 13:47, Trevor Agus <t.agus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> When encouraging people to be interested in hearing impairment, I'd like to say "most of us will be deaf". (The more common "1 in 6 adults in the UK..." isn't quite as personal.)
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> My best guess is that this is almost true, given our long life expectancy and the increasing risks of presbycusis, but I'd love to be able to put a figure on it.
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> Does anyone on the list have the epidemiological ability (and the data) to estimate what proportion of the adult population (in the UK or elsewhere) will at some point have a clinically significant hearing loss at some point?
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> All the best,
>
>
> Trevor
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