hearing impairments in consanguineous marriage

Hearing Impairments in Consanguineous Marriage

Consanguineous marriage is strongly favored in many large human populations. In the most parts of south Asia, consanguineous marriage account for 20%  to over 50% of the general population. The effect of consanguinity on hereditary deafness has been well studied and documented. Many authors have suggested that approximately one half  of sensory neural hearing loss in children can be attributed ...

Consanguineous Marriage among the Parents of Hearing Impaired Students in Mashhad

Objectives: The prevalence of consanguineous marriage is about 30 % in Iran and this can increase the probability of incidence of genetic impairments such as hearing impairments. Hearing impairment in comparison with other hereditary disorders is the most incident. The purpose of this survey is to identify the prevalence of consanguinity among the parents of sensoryneural hearing impaired stude...

Rate of Parental Consanguineous Marriage among Patients with Visual Impairments in Turkey

We aimed to describe the causes, characteristics, and rate of parental consanguineous marriage associated with patients with visual impairments in Turkey. This study involved 236 patients with visual impairments. The 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases was used to categorize the causes of visual impairments (based on the main cause in both eyes). The mean age of the pa...

1 Consanguineous marriage , past and present

Major problems can arise when a term with a quite specific scientific definition becomes part of everyday speech. A prime example of this phenomenon is the word mutation, acknowledged within science as denoting a change in genetic structure and the driving force of evolution. But to members of the general public a mutation almost inevitably denotes a change that is at best disadvantageous and i...

A Background Summary of Consanguineous Marriage

Hearing Impairments

For many people with hearing impairments, the degree of hearing loss is only a small aspect of their disability and does not neccesarily determine the types of accessibility solutions or accomodations that may be required. For some people, the ability to adjust the audio volume may be sufficient. For others, translation to a signed language may be more appropriate. For others still, access to t...