{"id":782,"date":"2022-03-11T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.fm1.dev\/?p=782"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:07:30","slug":"hearing-loss-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/hearing-loss-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hearing loss is second only to arthritis as the most common complaint of aging&nbsp;adults. Only about 10% of hearing losses are helped by surgery or other medical treatment.<\/li><li>90% of hearing losses can be treated with amplification devices. Only 16% of physicians routinely screen for hearing loss.<\/li><li>Noise above 80-90 decibels on average over an eight-hour workday is considered hazardous.<\/li><li>Firearms, music, airplanes, lawnmowers, power tools, etc., are louder than 80 decibels and potentially hazardous to hearing with prolonged exposure.<\/li><li>A live rock concert produces sounds from 110 to 120 decibels. This is high enough to cause permanent damage to hearing over a 2-3 hour period.<\/li><li>28 million Americans are hearing impaired.<\/li><li>There are more baby boomers aged 45-64 with a hearing loss (10 million) than there are people over the age of 65 with a hearing loss (9 million).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><div class=\"content-cta\">\r\n<p>Call Western Michigan ENT at <a href=\"tel:+12313989536\" class=\"phone \"><span class=\"phone-number\">(231) 398-9536<\/span><\/a> for more information or to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing loss is second only to arthritis as the most common complaint of aging&nbsp;adults. Only about 10% of hearing losses are helped by surgery or other medical treatment. 90% of hearing losses can be treated with amplification devices. Only 16% of physicians routinely screen for hearing loss. Noise above 80-90 decibels on average over an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmichiganent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}