Hearing Loss and Tinnitus—Impact of Different Factors concerning Vulnerability-Lifestyle, Nutrition, Epidemiological Factors and Gender
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 14710
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Interests: tinnitus; stress; comorbidities; psychometrics; psychology; phenotyping; audiology; hearing aids
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Interests: neuroscience; neurophysiology; learning; neurobiology; physiology; neurobiology and brain physiology; audiology; hearing disorders; ear; brain
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Interests: cognitive psychology; neuroscience; applied psychology; semantics; cognitive neuroscience; brain; event-related potentials; memory; language; language learning
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Interests: tinnitus; mobile health; chronic disease; ecological momentary assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
The WHO estimated that 430 million people worldwide suffer from moderate-to-severe hearing loss. This number will increase until 2050 to an estimate of around 700 million people who will need hearing rehabilitation.
One-third of the people with hearing loss experience tinnitus, that is, the perception of a sound despite the absence of an external source. Thus, tinnitus is not a rare symptom and affects a significant proportion of the general population. Although tinnitus prevalence rates vary considerably, European studies estimate a range between 11% and 30% and suggest an increased occurrence with age, hearing impairment or male gender. Tinnitus also has a substantial economic impact, with estimated costs for our societies of approximately EUR 117–325 billion annually in the EU. On a phenomenological level, emotional and cognitive difficulties can precede, exacerbate, or result from the tinnitus, and studies point to depressive mood as a key factor in rendering tinnitus distress. Studies have highlighted the effect of acute stress on auditory processing via processes that have also been implicated in anxiety or depression, such as changes in attention and cognition, changes in cortisol levels, or limbic processes.
Moreover, the prevalence of chronic diseases has increased in the last 10 years, with more frequently occurring combinations of several chronic disorders or combinations with chronic and acute disorders. The causal relationship between a single specific factor (nutrition, stress, lifestyle, genetic mutation, injury) and health deterioration is not always applicable in the context of chronic diseases, with their long-lasting course, large variance in patterns of symptom severity and frequency, as well as unclear pathophysiology.
This situation necessarily requires a paradigm shift in approaching the problem: chronic comorbid diseases should be considered as states of a multifactorial and complex system (the human being) that is perturbed and pushed into a pathological, imbalanced state through the influence of multiple factors (genetic background, molecular parameters, psychological factors, events such as trauma or age-related physiological changes, modulated for example by a certain lifestyle, nutrition, hearing ability, smoking, behavioral habits, physical activity, sex, or gender).
This Special Issue of Nutrients aims to focus on a collection of basic research and clinical studies detailing advancements in the field of hearing loss and tinnitus, with a focus on vulnerability factors. The aim is to better understand the trajectory of tinnitus-related maladaptation, to build predictive models for the development of the disturbed system, to identify novel biomarkers, and to develop treatment strategies taking into account the complex phenotypes of comorbidity spanning health- and non-health-related (e.g., nutrition, lifestyle, sex, gender) factors.
Prof. Dr. Birgit Mazurek
Prof. Dr. Holger Schulze
Prof. Dr. Christian Dobel
Dr. Winfried Schlee
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hearing loss
- tinnitus
- nutrients
- modification of biomarkers
- aspects of nutrition
- epidemiological factors
- risk factors
- environmental factors
- degree of severity/burden of disease/factors improving well-being
- lifestyle habits
- health claims
- public health
- new diagnostic methods and novel treatment strategies
- personalized system medicine approach
- psychological intervention
- new technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence approach)
- decision support systems
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