Smoking And Body Mass Index Linked To Hearing Loss - Moderate Alcohol Consumption Has A Protective Effect

Smoking and body mass index (BMI) are risk factors in the development of age-related hearing loss, says one of the largest-ever studies into risk factors for hearing loss - but alcohol has a protective effect. The study¹ has just been published online in Springer’s Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (JARO).

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Filed under: Ear, Nose and Throat on June 19th, 2008