Read Dr. David Folorunso’s paper on Early On Set Presbyacusis In Gwagwalada Area Council Of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Introduction.
Presbyacusis is a slow, progressive loss in hearing due to aging process, also called age-related hearing loss. Is one of the main causes of hearing loss among the aged and consider to commence from 65 years [1]? This has attracted atten-tion of otorhinolaryngologists and audiologists across the globe.
The attention has increasingly become pronounced following the prediction of World Health Organization, that elderly population is expected to hit 1.2 billion by 2025 out of which more than 500 million of them will suffer from sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) worldwide [2]. Apart from high decibel loss at high frequencies there were documentations on affectation of low, and middle frequencies depending on the duration.
Presbyacusis has been shown in many studies to have incredibly negative effects on the quality of life of millions of seniors [3]. The loss often-times is symmetrical, which is sensorineural hearing loss over a long period of time. Presbyacusis is a common global hearing problem [4] [5].
Hearing acuity deteriorates with age. Studies have shown that this begins to reflect on audio-grams as from the third decade, mainly in the high frequencies and also asso-ciated with hearing loss at speech frequencies which begin to manifest as from the fifth decade of life [6]. The study was set out to verify some of the studies that have shown high fre-quency loss beginning from the third decade, age twenty and above is WHO cut off for adulthood.
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