Characteristics of Adults With Unrecognized Hearing Loss.

Purpose Early detection of hearing loss is important for providing support and intervention for adults with age-related hearing loss. However, many older adults have hearing loss that is unidentified. Because they do not present the problem at health care settings, there is a dearth of research on people with unrecognized hearing loss (URHL).

The effect of education type on common misconceptions of traumatic brain injury.

Purpose: In the current study, we investigated the effects of existing education materials-either a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) factsheet or personal stories of people with TBI-on undergraduate students' misconceptions and attributions about the causes of TBI-related behavior.

Method: Undergraduate students (N = 164) were recruited through the university participant pool. The participants were randomly assigned to receive either a factsheet about TBI, personal stories of people with TBI, or a control reading.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in secondary arterial hypertension due to adrenal diseases.

The aim of this study was to evaluate ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in patients with essential hypertension and hypertension caused by adrenal pathology. Sixty-six patients with primary aldosteronism, 37 with pheochromocytomas, and 45 with adrenal incidentalomas were included. These patients were compared with 152 essential hypertensive patients and 64 normotensive subjects.

[High prevalence of thyroid disfunction in primary hyperaldosteronism].

Primary hyperaldosteronism is associated with other endocrinology pathologies, like pheochromocytoma, Cushing's syndrome, hyperprolactinemia, primary hyperparathyroidism and a type of multiple endocrine neoplasia. Furthermore, association between hyperaldosteronism and thyroid diseases were already pointed out. Aim of the study was to value the prevalence of some thyroid diseases in a series of patients with primary hyperaldosteronism.

[Turnover of bone metabolism and prevalence of vertebral fractures in adrenal incidentalomas].

Aim of the study was to evaluate, in a homogeneous group of patients with adrenal incidentalomas (AI), calcium-phosphorus metabolism alterations, bone mineral density (BMD) and the prevalence of vertebral fractures. We selected 46 patients with adrenal incidentalomas (26M, 20F; age: M = 61 +/- 14, F = 65 +/- 10 years, BMI: M = 26.2 +/- 4 Kg/m2, F = 28.