presbycusis

The symptoms of presbycusis may resemble other conditions or medical problems.

There is a progressive loss of ability to hear high frequencies with increasing age known as presbycusis.

Though still in their early stages, several treatments for presbycusis are in development.

The principle behind it is a biological reality that hearing experts refer to as presbycusis, or aging ear.

Presbycusis is deafness due to loss of perception to high tones, mainly in the elderly.

Hearing defects affecting both ears equally, as in Presbycusis will produce an apparently normal test result.

Factors that can cause hearing loss, which can be difficult to distinguish or separate from presbycusis, include:

Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is the slow loss of hearing that occurs as people get older.

Presbycusis is a progressive hearing impairment accompanying age, typically affecting sensitivity to higher frequencies (above about 2 kHz).

Smoking: Is postulated to accentuate atherosclerotic changes in blood vessels aggravating presbycusis.

Hypertension: Causes potent vascular changes, like reduction in blood supply to the cochlea, thereby aggravating presbycusis.

Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)

Presbycusis - age-related hearing loss that occurs in the high frequency range (4000 Hz to 8000 Hz).

Noise trauma: Exposure to loud noise/music on a continuing basis stresses the already hypoxic cochlea, hastening the presbycusis.

Ototoxic drugs: Ingestion of ototoxic drugs like aspirin may hasten the process of presbycusis.

This is noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and is distinct from presbycusis.

Hearing loss within the speech banana can also hinder communication capabilities in adults, as in elderly people with age-related hearing loss (presbycusis).

The most common cause of tinnitus is hearing loss that occurs with aging (presbycusis), but it can also be caused by living or working around loud noises (acoustic trauma).

They include a third of Americans over 60 and up to half of those over 75, most of whom have age-related hearing loss, a condition known medically as presbycusis.

Discrediting earlier notions of presbycusis, Rosen demonstrated that long term hearing loss is usually the product of chronic exposure to environmental noise in industrialized countries (Rosen, 1965).

The sound can typically only be heard by people below 25 years of age, as the ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates in humans with age (a phenomenon known as presbycusis).

Presbycusis (also spelt presbyacusis, from Greek presbys "elder" + akousis "hearing"), or age-related hearing loss, is the cumulative effect of aging on hearing.

Hearing loss that accumulates with age but is caused by factors other than normal aging is not presbycusis, although differentiating the individual effects of multiple causes of hearing loss can be difficult.

Although some presbycusis may occur naturally with age, in many developed nations the cumulative impact of noise is sufficient to impair the hearing of a large fraction of the population over the course of a lifetime.

It is likely that a larger clinical trial will be performed in order to gain more supporting evidence for the effects of CoQ10 in averting the development of hearing loss for people suffering from presbycusis.