There are many studies being conducted which aims to relate hearing loss to the occurrence of vision loss among those affected by the former. Though there are many factors that may be included in such occurrences, such as genetic framework, diseases, normal aging process, and other patho-physiological factors.

Vision loss in this manner is considered as the impairment of sight brought about by the any related factors that will generally reduce the quality of vision from 20/20. Complications and difficulty in seeing by the patient will be attributed to the occurrence of hearing loss as well. Some of the possible sight impairments would be maculopathy or the loss of keen sight by the macula, possibly due to a disease or physiological condition.

Hearing loss may be attributed to the lessening of sound from normal situations. This may be signified as a sign or symptom in which there is a difficulty in assessing the sounds being heard, difficulty in identifying them and judging the correct intensity. This impairment or progressive degradation may be attributed with physiological damage brought about by abuse in work noise environment, aging, disease, and the like.

As we tend to mature, our cells start to degrade. Even with new cells being produced in replacement of old ones, the vital parts of our bodies are not able to efficiently keep up with the amount of cells that die each day due to normal aging process. This is as well as radicals which hasten the life span and lessen the functionality of our cells for normal metabolism.

Our eyes and ears, as well as the supporting nerves and supportive tissue also experience degeneration and degradation as we age.

On a similar note, there have been studies that strongly suggest that hearing and vision loss are related in a way that they occur almost one after the other once aging sets in.