{"id":2322,"date":"2021-06-02T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.fm1.dev\/covid-19-hearing-and-balance\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:14:58","slug":"covid-19-hearing-and-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/covid-19-hearing-and-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19, hearing, and balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hearing-and-ballance-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A UK research study published in March 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/03\/210321215438.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link here<\/a> found lingering hearing and balance issues among COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalized, even after completing their hospital stay. The UK research adds to the scientific evidence that there is an association between COVID-19 and hearing problems, but the evidence isn\u2019t conclusive. Research data underlying the UK conclusions were primarily self-reported or came from medical records. Diagnostic hearing exams would have provided more reliable data to improve the quality of the research.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Dr. Sugata Bhattacharjee wrote about developments since the publication of the UK research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/opinion\/opinion-millions-of-people-have-hearing-loss-after-covid-19-2453615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. \u201cOur knowledge of the audio-vestibular system continues to grow alongside our understanding of COVID-19\u2026. [W]e continue to live with this virus, we will be able to mitigate the negative consequences. Through determination and resilience, we can learn and cope together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK research study published in March 2021 link here found lingering hearing and balance issues among COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalized, even after completing their hospital stay. The UK research adds to the scientific evidence that there is an association between COVID-19 and hearing problems, but the evidence isn\u2019t conclusive. Research data underlying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"According to early research, COVID-10 can impact hearing and balance long after the the life-threatening aspects of the disease have passed.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,22,23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-deafcommunity","category-health","category-hearing","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}