In one of the biggest retrospective studies of its type, researchers analyzed data from roughly 96,000 ears and created a word-score model that may determine the amount of hidden hearing loss or cochlear nerve damage in people. A word-score model that may assess the degree of hidden hearing loss
The researchers’ word-score model can estimate hidden hearing loss.
The new model improves assessments of cochlear nerve damage in patients and the speech-intelligibility deficits that are brought on by neural loss, claims Stéphane F. Maison, Ph.D., CCC-A, the study’s primary author and associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery atMaison is also the principal investigator of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories.
“This explains why some patients who report difficulties understanding a conversation in a busy bar or restaurant may have a ‘normal’ hearing exam. Likewise, it explains why many hearing aid users who receive amplified sounds still struggle with the intelligibility of speech,” Dr. Maison said. After considering a number of factors, including the cognitive deficits that may accompany aging, the researchers argued that the size of these discrepancies reflected the amount of cochlear nerve damage, or hidden hearing loss, a person had. They then applied measures of neural loss from existing histopathological data from human temporal bones to come up with a predictive model based on a standard hearing exam.
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