Background: Human hearing is sensitive to sounds from as low as 20 Hz to as high as
20,000 Hz in normal ears. However, clinical tests of human hearing rarely include extended …

Introduction Hearing loss is common and, in young persons, can compromise social
development and educational achievement. Exposure to heavy metals has been proposed …

Objective: Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (USNHL) is known to impact on school
performance and social skills during childhood, but the etiologies remain unclear. The aim of …

Materials and Methods: The first part included 280 adolescents, who were 17 years of age
and focused on self-reported data on subjective hearing problems and listening habits …

Hearing loss is an increasingly common problem in the UK, and noise-induced hearing loss
is the second most common acquired cause. There is a greater burden on the younger …

Studying gene-environment interactions requires that the amount and quality of the lifestyle
data is comparable to what is available for the corresponding genomic data. Sweden has …

Great concern arises from recreational noise exposure, which might lead to noise-induced
hearing loss in young adults. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effects of …

Objectives/Hypothesis Childhood obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI)≥ 95%, is a
significant health problem associated with a variety of disorders, and in adults it has been …

Due to the poor prognosis of high-risk (HR) neuroblastoma (NBL), scant data exist on late
effects after treatment. Recently, protocols utilizing intense multimodal treatment have …

The objective of this study is to provide an assessment of allostatic load (AL) burden among
US adults across race/ethnicity, gender, and age groups over a 30-year time period. We …