[PDF] Top 20 Contribution to the study of epidemiological factors associated with sensorineural hearing loss in the population of São Tomé and Príncipe

... Hearing loss (HL) is a common condition with both genetic and environmental causes, and it greatly impacts global ...health. The prevalence of HL is reportedly higher ... See full document

... regards the p.Val167Met variant, it has been previously found, in heterozygosity, in four Kenyans with prelingual, non- syndromic HL (Gasmelseed et ...2004) and in one Camer- ... See full document

... organs and cause birth defects that are responsible for congenital rubella syndrome ...Congenital hearing loss is the most common symptom of this syndrome, occurring in ... See full document

... evidence of mutations associated with SNHL, there have been thus far no studies reporting on the relative frequency of mutations in the hearing-impaired Portuguese ... See full document

... aware of their diseases, most of them presented clear decompensated status during the initial evaluation, representing evidence of inadequate treatment ...maintenance. The control ... See full document

... In the current study, the accuracy of the IgG deter- mination from DBS samples was assessed before the de- termination of rubella ...seroprevalence. The main ... See full document

... The epidemiological profile of Malaria in São Tomé and Príncipe reveals a significant decrease of malaria admissions and deaths over 2006-2007 ...then, ... See full document

... Hereditary Hearing Loss is a common disorder accounting for at least 60% of prelingual ...deletion, and the A1555G mitochondrial mutation play a major role worldwide in causing ... See full document

... was the most important cause of strial presbycusis. Findings of [36] supported a genetic effect on the inheritance of strial presbycusis in woman, occurring stronger aggregation ... See full document

... enrolled population was recruited during humanitarian missions occurred during ...2012-2014. The high prevalence of hearing impairment in STP open the door to study ... See full document

... respectively, in most of the vertebrate genes they have ...Consistent with the suggested functional relevance of the two positions immediately upstream of ... See full document

... This study included 615 NIHL workers and 615 normal hearing workers from the Datun Coal and Electricity Company (Xuzhou, ...workers and 32 normal hearing workers were ... See full document

... total of 277 patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss treated at the ISSHL Outpatient Clinic were assessed between 2000 and ...2010. Of these, 8 patients did ... See full document

... leading to the formation of 24 amino acids, instead of the normal 226 ...According to literature (Minárik et al, 2003), in individuals homozygous for ...present in ... See full document

... fact, the current clinical assessment of hearing impaired children/patients includes regular and sometimes invasive clinical investigations due to the possibility of ... See full document

... logical study conducted in 9 outpatient Nephrology Clinics of the National Health System from across the different regions of Greece from October 2009 to October ... See full document

... nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSSHL), more than 140 genetic loci have been mapped, with more than 60 genes identifi ed to date (Alford, 2011; Smith & Van Camp, ... See full document

... cross-sectional study identified the factors associated with adult feeding practices in Goiânia, the capital of the state of Goiás, in ... See full document

... Other study by Steenerson et al. in 2001 evaluating vertigo after CI shows that imbalance was common preo- peratively, positional vertigo was a common sequel postoperatively in the side ... See full document

... ing of the coding regions of the TJP2 (OMIM 607709; NM ...004808.2) and CLDN14 (OMIM 605608; NM ...amplification and sequencing of the TJP2 and CLDN14 genes ... See full document