Hearing and Vision Loss Go Hand-in-Hand With Aging

[Editorial]

Australian researchers have found that hearing and vision loss often occur together in older adults. The study of over 1,900 adults of between 50 and 70 years of age found that those with vision loss were more likely to also have hearing loss, and vice-versa. With further investigation, the researchers concluded that cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (the two most common causes of vision loss in older people) were both independently associated with hearing loss. The study authors suggested a number of reasons for this link between vision and hearing loss. Both conditions are regular consequences of aging and both share common risk factors, including smoking, hardening of the arteries, and diabetes. Further studies are needed to understand the relationship between visual and hearing impairments in older persons and to determine whether intervention to improve these impairments could delay biological aging. This work was published in the 9th October 2006 issue of the journal Archives of Ophthalmology

Australian Audiology Related Research
Source - Health Day News, 11th October 2006

[omar.sharifa]

I think older people suffers from (presbyopia) which make Hyperopia after the age of 40's and in hearing system the older people suffers from presbycusis which make high frequency loss, and if you compare those you can find a link which it is age

thanks for nice information

[AcousticS]

Sorry, all the pleadings are in German.

"Presbycusis"

Source:
http://eco.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/do...h/Kap_5_5.html

See: 5.5.2 Listening in the Age

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"presbyopia"

Representation known as "Duane figure"

Source:
http://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg....itundSehen.pdf

See PDF-Document: 2.2.1.8 Age; Figure 8, page 52/53 of 205