Einhorn Richard
IEEE Pulse. 2017 Mar-Apr;8(2):25-28. doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2016.2647018.
Approximately 360 million people in the world live with a debilitating hearing loss. The most common conditions-age-related and noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss-are both progressive and, for the foreseeable future, neither curable nor reversible.
全球约有3.6亿人患有严重的听力损失。最常见的情况——与年龄相关的和噪声性感音神经性听力损失——都是渐进性的,而且在可预见的未来,既无法治愈也不可逆转。