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What is Hearing Impairment?

What is Hearing Impairment?

  • Hearing Impairment: Reduced ability to hear sounds.
  • Hearing Impairment: lack or significant deficiency of the sense of hearing.
    Source - Diseases Database
  • Hearing Impairment: impairment of the sense of hearing.
    Source - WordNet 2.1

Hearing Impairment: Introduction

Types of Hearing Impairment:

Types of Hearing Impairment:

Broader types of Hearing Impairment:

How many people get Hearing Impairment?

Prevalance of Hearing Impairment: 22 million; 158 per 1000 (NHIS95)
Prevalance Rate of Hearing Impairment: approx 1 in 12 or 8.09% or 22 million people in USA [about data]

How serious is Hearing Impairment?

Complications of Hearing Impairment: see complications of Hearing Impairment

What causes Hearing Impairment?

Causes of Hearing Impairment: see causes of Hearing Impairment

What are the symptoms of Hearing Impairment?

Symptoms of Hearing Impairment: see symptoms of Hearing Impairment

Complications of Hearing Impairment: see complications of Hearing Impairment

Hearing Impairment: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Hearing Impairment.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Hearing Impairment.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Hearing Impairment: see treatments for Hearing Impairment
Research for Hearing Impairment: see research for Hearing Impairment

Society issues for Hearing Impairment


Hospitalization statistics for Hearing Impairment: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Hearing Impairment:

  • 0.014% (1,787) of hospital consultant episodes were for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 100% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 51% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 49% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
  • 6% of hospital consultant episodes for conductive and sensorineural hearing loss required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Hearing Impairment:

Organs and body systems related to Hearing Impairment include:

Name and Aliases of Hearing Impairment

Main name of condition: Hearing Impairment

Other names or spellings for Hearing Impairment:

Hearing disorders, Hearing conditions

Hearing loss, Deafness Source - Diseases Database

Hearing impairment, Hearing disorder
Source - WordNet 2.1

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Hearing Impairment:


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