title: [Hearing in old age. Hearing loss is never physiologic].
abstract: The common form of hardness of hearing seen in old age is not, in the first instance, due to physiological age-related changes as is, for example, presbyopia, but rather to a complex sensorineural pattern of injury. The underlying causes are not yet fully understood. Typical medical risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, etc. apparently play a smaller role than increasing environmental noise and modern life styles. The various forms of presbyacusis and their presentation in the pure tone audiogram are discussed.
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authors.lastname: Leithäuser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss; D006315:Hearing Loss, Functional; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology