04/10/2018 / By Jessica Dolores
Still dying for a smoke? Besides, emphysema, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, blindness and of course cancer, here’s one more reason to stop smoking — hearing loss.
A recently-published study published by Oxford University Press showed that the more than 50,000 participants of the over eight year-study showed that “smoking is an independent risk factor of hearing loss.”
Lead author Dr. Huanhuan Hu of Japan’s National Center for Global Health and Medicine added that this makes it even more important to control tobacco use to stem or delay hearing loss. He and his colleagues made the conclusion on the heels of research that took more than eight years to complete. Besides the prolonged time frame, the researchers’ confidence in their findings stems from the study’s large sample size of over 50,000 participants.
They studied data from yearly health checkups, including audio testing and a health-related lifestyle questionnaire per participant. They also analyzed the effects of smoking status (current, former, and never smokers), number of cigarettes consumed a day, and the relationship between length of smoking cessation and the extent of hearing loss. They found a higher risk of hearing loss among smokers compared with non-smokers. (Related: Smoking causes up to 40% of cancer deaths in the US… so why are cigarettes still sold by pharmacies?)
Fortunately, the effects are reversible. The higher risk to hearing loss went down within five years after the person stopped smoking.
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Life is great when you hear a loved one’s sweet whispers or the soothing sound of your favorite music. Don’t rob yourself of these simple joys by smoking. It’s not worth it at all.
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