After accounting for work -
related noise exposure and other hearing loss risk factors, the investigators found that smokers were 1.2 to 1.6 times more likely to suffer hearing loss than people who never smoked.
Not exact matches
The researchers note that because survey participants tend to underreport information such as health care use, it's possible that the levels of
noise exposure and hearing -
related behaviors presented here underestimate the true prevalence.
One reason is that it's impossible to tell the difference between age -
related damage and damage due to prior
noise exposure, says Frank Lin, associate professor of otolaryngology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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