Are Women resistant to Hearing Loss?

Hearing is very important of the senses which help adults carry on with their work and social life. The same hearing sense helps children hear speech sounds among others and help them acquire speech and language.


It is generally well understood about sensory organs lose their acuity with aging. Hearing acuity also reduces with aging and infact that is the biggest known cause of permanent hearing loss. This article shall help all women understand about all the known risk factors of hearing loss and also something about prevention and treatment options for hearing loss.


This article shall help all women understand about all the known risk factors of hearing loss


It is now clear that women have a very different way of aging when hearing is concerned. To understand the same better we need to know the concept of an audiogram. An Audiogram is the graphical representation of hearing acuity which is measured across 6-7 sound frequency zones. The audiogram curve which is a flat line at 20 years of age for both men and men, starts descending at different frequencies as they age, depicting deteriorating hearing acuity (shown in the picture). It is also clear that deterioration is faster in men till 50 years of age and after 50yrs, it is equally faster in both genders.


It is now clear that women have a very different way of aging when hearing is concerned

However, there are clear cut differences between how women and men hear and this persists even after 50 years. The audiogram is a typical-averaged audiogram seen in men and women at 65-70 years age. It clearly demonstrates a gender difference in hearing, women faring better at sound frequency zone above 1000 Hz and men faring better in the sound frequency zone below 1000 Hz.

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