耳鸣
医学
听力学
听力损失
流行病学
糖尿病
饮酒量
人口
环境卫生
酒
内科学
生物化学
内分泌学
化学
作者
A Quaranta,Giorgio Assennato,Sallustio
出处
期刊:PubMed
日期:1996-01-01
卷期号:42: 9-13
被引量:76
摘要
Estimates for the prevalence of self-reported hearing disability and measured hearing impairment as a function of age in the adult population of Italy are reported. The study was conducted in Bari, Florence, Milan, Padua, Palermo with questionnaire and audiological assessment; neither stage showed any gross bias arising from the particular cities chosen. The results have demonstrated that: 22% of subjects think their hearing abnormal, 24.4% report some difficulty understanding speech, 14.5% experienced prolonged spontaneous tinnitus and 17% have a > or = 25 dB HL bilateral hearing impairment; hearing problems increase progressively with age and show no significant differences between men and women; the occupational groups most at risk as far as hearing impairments are concerned are manual workers and workers exposed to occupational noise; the systemic disorders most significantly connected to hearing problems are dyslipidosis, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases and cervical arthrosis; among every day habits, the consumption of alcohol seems the only element of risk, above all for tinnitus.
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