Hearing Loss

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• Hearing loss is the third most common physical condition after arthritis and hypertension (high blood pressure).
  
  
• In older people, a hearing loss is often confused with or complicates such conditions as dementia.
  
  
• About 20% of adults in the United States, 40 million, report some degree of hearing loss.
  
  
• At age 60, 33% of all people have a hearing loss.
  
  
• In adults, the most common causes of hearing loss are aging and noise exposure.
  
  
• More often than not severe tinnuitus (ringing in the ear) will accompany a hearing loss and may be just as debilitating as the hearing loss itself.
  
  
• Other causes of hearing loss include impacted earwax, an object in the ear or head, ear infection, a ruptured ear drum and other conditions that affect the middle or inner ear (data from Hearing Loss Association of America).