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Disability cause: Early childhood poor nutrition linked to hearing loss

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Hindustan Times

Hearing loss is the fourth leading cause of disability worldwide, and an estimated 80 % of affected individuals live in low- and middle-income countries.

Disability cause: Early childhood poor nutrition linked to hearing loss

Under nutrition in the preschool years is associated with hearing impairment later in life, a study suggests.

Hearing loss is the fourth leading cause of disability worldwide, and an estimated 80 % of affected individuals live in low- and middle-income countries.

The study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, analysed the relationship between the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults in Nepal and their nutritional levels as children 16 years earlier.

The findings suggest that nutritional interventions in South Asia could help prevent hearing loss. Prevalence estimates of hearing impairment among children and young adults in South Asia range from 14 % - 28 % of the population.

“Our findings should help elevate hearing loss as a still-neglected public health burden, and one that nutrition interventions in early childhood might help prevent,” says Keith West Jr., the principal investigator of the study.

The lead author was Susan Emmett, MD, MPH, an otolaryngologist at the Bloomberg School’s Center for Human Nutrition. From 2006 to 2008, researchers tested the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults. All study participants had been part of a nutrition trial conducted between 1989 and 1991 in the District of Sarlahi in Nepal that collected information to assess their nutritional status.

Results of the auditory tests show that young adults who were stunted in childhood were nearly twice as likely to show signs of hearing loss. Stunting, or being too short for one’s age, is a chronic condition of undernourishment that often starts before birth, which is a critical time for the development of auditory function.

Researchers suspect that impeded inner ear development caused by under nutrition, especially in the womb, may contribute to the increased risk of hearing loss found in the study. Participants who were too thin as children were also at a twofold increase of hearing loss. Being too thin for one’s age is typically caused by acute malnutrition, defined as shorter, more severe periods of under nutrition.

Acute malnutrition raises children’s susceptibility to infections, including in the ear. Repeated ear infections can lead to hearing loss.

“The study site in Nepal is representative of much of the Gangetic region of South Asia. There are over 160 million undernourished children in this region, putting them at high risk for a range of health and developmental problems. We now have evidence that addressing this nutritional burden might also prevent hearing loss later in life,” said West.

Previous studies have linked deficiencies of micronutrients, including vitamin A, to hearing impairment. This is believed to be the first, however, to investigate the relationship between generalized under nutrition and hearing loss, and it is believed to be the first to identify early childhood nutritional status as a modifiable risk factor for later-life hearing loss. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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17 Inspiring Quotes for Success from the World's Wealthiest People

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inc.

There are remarkably powerful lessons to be learned about success from those who have already achieved it.

While some of the world's wealthiest people inherited their money, many earned it the good old fashioned way--through hard work, smarts, and perseverance. If you've got a goal of succeeding in life, then there are a lot of things you can learn from those who have already made it. Here are some particularly inspiring quotes from some particularly successful people.

1. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." --Steve Jobs

2. "Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it." --Mark Cuban

3. "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." --Bill Gates

4. "What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction." --Oprah Winfrey

5. "Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins." --Carlos Slim

6. "Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable." --Sam Walton

7. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all." --J.K. Rowling

8. "If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." --Jeff Bezos

9. "You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen." --Michael Bloomberg

10. "I could either watch it happen, or be part of it." --Elon Musk

11. "Done is better than perfect." --Mark Zuckerberg

12. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." --Bill Gates

13. "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me." --Steve Jobs

14. "If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through." --Isabel dos Santos

15. "You can't make a good deal with a bad person." --Warren Buffett

16. "When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts." --Larry Ellison

17. "When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies--and I'm proud of the ones I've got." --Rupert Murdoch

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