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| Hearing loss twice as likely with diabetes WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -- People with diabetes are twice as likely to have hearing loss as those who do not have diabetes, a U.S. audiologist says.
Dr. Cindy Beyer, an audiologist and senior vice president of HearUSA, a hearing care and hearing aids company, says the National Institutes of Health landmark study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, recommended that all men and women with diabetes have their hearing tested.
"Based on the findings of the NIH study, 5 million Americans living with diabetes also have hearing loss that, in many cases, remains undetected and untreated," Beyer says in a statement.
Untreated hearing loss is serious. Studies have linked untreated hearing loss to fatigue, stress and depression, avoidance of social situations, reduced job performance and earning power, and diminished health, Breyer says.
All HearUSA company-owned hearing care centers in New York state will be offering free hearing-loss screenings, along with a free 80-minute "Living With Diabetes" video produced by the American Diabetes Association, to anyone with diabetes during the month of March.
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| Canadian life expectancy up to 80.7 years OTTAWA (UPI) -- Life expectancy in Canada rose to 80.7 years from 80.5 years from 2005 to 2007, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa Tuesday.
The overall gain was significant compared with an average of 78.4 years from 1995 to 1997, but was most pronounced among men, the agency said.
"Their life expectancy at birth rose by 2.9 years to 78.3 in 2005-07, while among women it increased by 1.8 years to 83," StatsCan said.
Regionally, longevity was highest in British Columbia at 82.1 years, and lowest in the three territories at 75.8 years, the report said.
As for deaths, 235,217 people died in Canada in 2007, up 7,138 or 3.1 percent from 2006.
"The number of deaths registered in Canada in 2007 recorded its largest increase since 1993, continuing a long-term upward trend resulting from a growing and aging population," the agency said.
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| Protecting the spine during winter sports CLEVELAND (UPI) -- Whether your goal is to conquer a new hobby or go for Olympic gold, there are ways to protect the spine from injury, U.S. physicians say.
"Getting active outside during winter is an excellent way to exercise and help those cold months pass by faster," Dr. Lincoln Likness, a member of the North American Spine Society and Cleveland Clinic Center, says in a statement. "While year round exercise is recommended for overall spine health, winter sporting activities come with some degree of injury risk."
Downhill skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, ice hockey and speed skating involve high speeds, obstacles and a high risk of injury, the physician says.
Officials at the North American Spine Society say ensuring the health of the spine makes the winter sporting season painless and enjoyable. They suggest:
-- Always keep your head up and be aware of your surroundings while participating in sporting activities.
-- Focus your off-season and in-season preparation on your core: spine, abdominal, gluteal, and upper leg muscles. A strong and balanced core supports optimal body mechanics, balance and stability.
-- Consider getting sport-specific training when taking on any new sporting challenge.
-- Always remember to perform warmup and cool down exercises before any sporting activity.
-- If you sustain a fall, high velocity injury, or experience severe pain or motor-sensory deficits, be evaluated by a spine physician promptly.
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| A daytime nap helps baby learn TUCSON (UPI) -- Sleep -- or napping -- is an important part of how infants learn and helps the developing brain retain new information, U.S. researchers said.
Rebecca Gomez, Richard Bootzin and Lynn Nadel of the University of Arizona in Tucson found babies who are able to get in a daytime nap are more likely than others to exhibit an advanced level of learning known as abstraction.
Nadel and colleagues played recordings of "phrases" created from an artificial language to four dozen 15-month-old infants during a learning session. Their methodology included repeatedly playing phrases like "pel-wadim-jic" until the babies became familiar with them.
Prior to being tested, some infants learning this faux language took their normally scheduled nap.
The researchers found that babies' longer gazes at a flashing light that coincided with the phrases signaled attention, which indicated they had learned a particular phrase or relationship.
The infants who did not sleep after the sessions still recognized the phrases they had learned earlier, but those babies who had slept in between sessions were able to generalize their knowledge of sentence structure to draw predictive relationships to the new phrases -- suggesting abstract learning.
Nadel presented the finding at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Diego.
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