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| Hearing loss of former prisoners of war of the Japanese | | Author(s) | Thomas W Grossman, Harry D Kerr, James C Byrd |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 44, no 9, September 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1089-1092 |
| Keywords | Hearing Impairment ; Hearing aids ; Armed Forces ; United States of America ; War ; Japan. |
| Annotation | This is a descriptive study of the prevalence, degree and types of hearing loss in a group of 75 older American veterans who had been prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese. Hearing aids were prescribed for eight veterans. Subjects were examined, and pure tone air and bone conduction, speech reception threshold, and speech discrimination were determined. Results were compared with age- and sex-matched controls from the largest recent American study of hearing loss. 95% of subjects had been imprisoned longer than 33 months. Starvation conditions (100%), head trauma (85%), and trauma-related loss of consciousness (23%) were commonly reported. 73% complained of hearing loss, and 22 out of 75 dated its onset to captivity. Most of those with the worst losses in hearing and speech discrimination were in this sub-group. When the entire group was compared with published age- and sex-matched controls from the Framingham study, no significant differences were found. The authors advocate screen examinations and long-term follow-up of populations with similar histories of starvation, head trauma, and torture. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812211 A |
| Classmark | BV: M8: VMM: 7T: VMC: 7DT |
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