Alerting that over one billion people aged 12 to 35, risking losing their hearing due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud music and other high volume recreational noise, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new international safety advice on Wednesday to tackle the rising threat of hearing loss.
By 2050, around one-in-four people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday, in its first World Report on Hearing.
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Many people live with unidentified hearing loss, often failing to realize that they are missing out on certain sounds and words. To address this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging people on this year’s World Hearing Day, held on March 3, to check their hearing.
More than one billion 12 to 35-year-olds, risk irreversible hearing loss from exposure to loud sounds such as music played on their smartphone, UN health experts said on Tuesday, unveiling new guidelines to help address the problem.
Over five per cent of the world’s population is living with hearing loss, but preventing the condition is “infinitely easier” than treating it.
That’s according to Dr Shelly Chadha, an expert on hearing loss and deafness prevention from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr Chadha added that over one billion adolescents and young people are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged exposure to loud music.
She spoke with Lucy Dean in the lead up to World Hearing Day, marked on March 3, who began by asking about the prevalence of the condition worldwide.