Covid associated with increased risk for hearing loss in young adults

Published by: The Washington Post
Published on: August 29, 2024
By Richard Sima

Covid can lead to the loss of smell and taste, but another sense may also be at risk.

A recent study published in the Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal reported that a positive coronavirus diagnosis was associated with a more than threefold increase in risk for subsequent hearing loss in young adults.

The effects of covid can linger and affect nearly every organ system, increasing the risk for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cognitive impairment.

The new research may be an “alert” that “covid-19 may be an independent risk factor for hearing loss and sudden sensorineural hearing loss among young adults,” said Hye Jun Kim, a biomedical sciences PhD candidate at Seoul National University and an author of the study.

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heart failure

Data: Heart-failure patients have 82% better odds of living longer if vaccinated against COVID

Published May 13, 2024

Published by: CIDRAP
Published on: May 13, 2024
By Mary Van Beusekom

The first study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in a large population of adult heart-failure patients suggests that vaccinated participants are 82% more likely to live longer than their unvaccinated peers, according to an analysis presented over the weekend at the Heart Failure 2024 scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Lisbon, Portugal.

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COVID-19 shrinks life expectancy in S. Korea for first time since 1970

Published December 1, 2023

Published by: Reuters
Published on: December 1, 2023
By Hyonhee Shin

Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7 years, down from 83.6 years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19.

Following a global trend of such declines over the past few years, the OECD grouping said last month that average life expectancy had dipped 0.7 years across its 39 member nations between 2019 and 2021.

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pneumonia outbreaks

Doit-on s’inquiéter de l’épidémie de pneumonie en Chine ?

Published November 29, 2023

Published by: Radio-Canada
Published on: November 29, 2023
By Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski

In China, the recent outbreak of hospitalizations due to childhood pneumonia has attracted the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO). The primary cause appears to be Mycoplasma pneumoniae. In the height of influenza season, should we be concerned about this pathogen? Here are five questions to understand.

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pandemic response

What We Can Learn from Six Countries’ Pandemic Battle Plans

Published April 13, 2020

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: April 13, 2020
By Andrew Nikiforuk

Laissez-faire. Lockdowns. Mitigation. Testing. Denial. Elimination.

The world has responded to the pandemic with a diversity of strategies.

Some appear to be working well, while others are just coping or failing altogether.

And history appears to have prepared some countries better than others.

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