Subject: AW: Hearing Loss "False Positives" From: "reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx" <reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:58:57 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>------=_Part_2320_31654324.1285246737371 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Kevin,=20 >From a non-professional: 10 percent of 14.9 percent is about 1.5 percent; t= hat leaves 13.4 percent of teenagers with hearing loss, which is still frig= htening. From "Molecular Biology of the Cell", Part V, Chapter 22: "Auditor= y Hair Cells Have to Last a Lifetime". Reinhart.=20 Reinhart Frosch, Dr. phil. nat., r. PSI and ETH Zurich, Sommerhaldenstr. 5B, CH-5200 Brugg. Phone: 0041 56 441 77 72. Mobile: 0041 79 754 30 32. E-mail: reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx . ----Urspr=C3=BCngliche Nachricht---- Von: kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx Datum: 21.09.2010 23:41 An: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Betreff: Hearing Loss "False Positives" Would anyone in the professional community care to comment on this? Begin forwarded message: A new study from the University of Minnesota says that we're overestimating= the amount of teens with hearing loss.=20 http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_254452.html Thanks in advance. Kevin ------=_Part_2320_31654324.1285246737371 Content-Type: text/html;charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><style type=3D'text/css'> <!-- div.bwmail { background-color:#ffffff; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helv= etica; font-size: 12px; margin:0; padding:0;} div.bwmail p { margin:0; padding:0; } div.bwmail table { font-family: Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 12= px; } div.bwmail li { margin:0; padding:0; } --> </style> </head><body><div class=3D'bwmail'><P>Dear Kevin, </P> <P>From a non-professional: 10 percent of 14.9 percent is about 1.5 percent= ; that leaves 13.4 percent of teenagers with hearing loss, which is still f= rightening. From "Molecular Biology of the Cell", Part V, Chapter 22: "Audi= tory Hair Cells Have to Last a Lifetime".</P> <P>Reinhart. <BR><BR>Reinhart Frosch,<BR>Dr. phil. nat.,<BR>r. PSI and= ETH Zurich,<BR>Sommerhaldenstr. 5B,<BR>CH-5200 Brugg.<BR>Phone: 0041 56 44= 1 77 72.<BR>Mobile: 0041 79 754 30 32.<BR>E-mail: reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx .<= BR><BR>----Urspr=C3=BCngliche Nachricht----<BR>Von: kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx= CA<BR>Datum: 21.09.2010 23:41<BR>An: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx><BR>Be= treff: Hearing Loss "False Positives"<BR></P> <DIV> </DIV>Would anyone in the professional community care to comment= on this?<BR> <DIV> <DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV> <DIV>A new study from the University of Minnesota says that we're overestim= ating the amount of teens with hearing loss. <BR><A href=3D"http://www= 1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_254452.html">http://www1.umn.e= du/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_254452.html</A></DIV></DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance.</DIV> <DIV>Kevin<BR></DIV></div></body></html> ------=_Part_2320_31654324.1285246737371--