Following a MedPage story, UPI (2/18) reports that, according to a study published in the journal Otolaryngology, approximately “one-fifth of children with hearing loss also have eye disorders.” Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle “reviewed ophthalmologic findings in 226 patients with sensorineural hearing loss who were seen at a children’s hospital from 2000 to 2007″ and “found that more than 21 percent had an ophthalmologic abnormality, including 10.2 percent with refractive errors including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, and 29 with non-refractive errors.” The authors said that “the cause of sensorineural hearing loss was syndromic — having other symptoms associated — in 11 patients and five had syndromes with related eye problems.”