by Robert Preidt
Health reporter
Fat Loss Grocery List - Hearing Loss Joins Long List of Smoking Harms
Thursday, (Health News) - You can add hearing loss to the many risks for smoking health, new surveys suggest.
For the study, the researchers analyzed eight years of health data in more than 50,000 people in Japan.
After accounting for work-related noise exposure and other factors of Auditory loss risk, researchers found that smokers were 1.2 to 1.6 times more likely to suffer hearing loss than people who have never smoked.
"with a large sample size, long monitoring and objective assessment of hearing loss, our study provides strong evidence that smoking is an independent risk factor of hearing loss," said the author of Leads. . Huanhuan Hu, from the National Health Center and Global Medicine, Japan.
and more smoked people, the higher the risk of high and low frequency hearing loss.
The increase in the risk of hearing loss associated with smoke decline within five years after a person stopped smoking, the researchers re behaved.
The study was published on March 14 in Nicotina magazine
