Macrophages are abundant in the cochlea; however, their role in hearing loss is not well
understood. Insults to the cochlea, such as noise or insertion of a cochlear implant, cause an …

Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is a common cause of hearing loss in elderly
people worldwide. It typically presents as progressive, irreversible, and usually affects the …

The current gold standard of clinical hearing assessment includes a pure-tone audiogram
combined with a word recognition task. This retrospective study tests the hypothesis that …

Age-related hearing loss, or presbyacusis, is a common degenerative disorder affecting
communication and quality of life for millions of older adults. Multiple pathophysiologic …

Several lines of evidence have suggested that steeply sloping audiometric losses are
caused by hair cell degeneration, while flat audiometric losses are caused by strial atrophy …

Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit experienced by humans and represents
one of the largest chronic health conditions worldwide. It is expected that around 10% of the …

Age-related hearing loss, or presbyacusis, is a prominent chronic degenerative disorder that
affects many older people. Based on presbyacusis pathology, the degeneration occurs in …

Age-related hearing loss is difficult to study in humans because multiple genetic and
environmental risk factors may contribute to pathology and cochlear function declines in …

This study aims to establish a biological age (BA) predictor and to investigate the roles of
lifestyles on biological aging. The 14,848 participants with the available information of …

Statins are a class of drugs that are widely used for the treatment of hyperlipidemia and the
prevention of heart attack and stroke. These drugs inhibit the rate-limiting step in the …