{"id":1439,"date":"2021-08-06T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:13:01","slug":"hearing-loss-increases-risk-of-accidental-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/hearing-loss-increases-risk-of-accidental-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Accidental Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that hearing loss increases your risk of an accidental injury? When you think about it, it makes sense: hearing loss lowers your awareness of what\u2019s going on around you. One study uncovered exactly how much more likely an accidental injury is for people with a hearing impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-the-study\">About the Study<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1014\" src=\"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/audiologist-hearing-aid-fit-scaled-1-1536x1014.jpg\" alt=\"An elderly woman with hearing aid\" class=\"wp-image-2165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/audiologist-hearing-aid-fit-scaled-1-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/audiologist-hearing-aid-fit-scaled-1-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/audiologist-hearing-aid-fit-scaled-1-256x169.jpg 256w, https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/audiologist-hearing-aid-fit-scaled-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaotolaryngology\/article-abstract\/2676015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> was published in May of 2018 in the journal <em>JAMA Otolaryngology \u2013 Head &amp; Neck Surgery. <\/em>The research was conducted by experts at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine and the Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the study was to uncover whether hearing difficulty was associated with a risk of accidental injury.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"study-methods\">Study Methods<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Researchers used data from the CDC collected for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) between 2007 and 2015. For the survey, participants ranked their hearing abilities as excellent, good, a little trouble hearing, moderate trouble hearing, a lot of trouble hearing of deaf. Types of injury were classified as driving-related, work-related or leisure\/sport-related.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"study-results\">Study Results<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Of the total number, 2.8% of participants reported an accidental injury at some point in the previous three months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The types of injuries are broken down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Driving-related injury: <\/strong>There was no statistical difference based on hearing status.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Work-related injury: <\/strong>The groups with good hearing and little trouble hearing were more likely to report an injury than those with excellent hearing or more severe hearing problems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leisure\/sport-related injury: <\/strong>0.8% of those with excellent hearing reported an injury compared to 1.4% of those who considered themselves deaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the rate of accidental injury increased from 2.4% for those with excellent hearing to 4.8% for those who reported a lot of trouble hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"preventing-an-injury\">Preventing an Injury<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Researchers suggest that, \u201cIncreased awareness about hearing difficulty and its proper screening and management may assist in decreasing accidental injury.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This claim is backed by another <a href=\"https:\/\/agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jgs.16109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, published in September 2019 in the <em>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. <\/em>This study found that use of hearing aids is associated with a delayed diagnosis of injurious falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prevent an injury when shopping at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/southwoodgardencenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southwood Landscape and Garden Center<\/a>, call the hearing aid experts at Eastern Oklahoma ENT today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that hearing loss increases your risk of an accidental injury? When you think about it, it makes sense: hearing loss lowers your awareness of what\u2019s going on around you. One study uncovered exactly how much more likely an accidental injury is for people with a hearing impairment. About the Study The study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Did you know that hearing loss increases your risk of an accidental injury?","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hearing-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}