Hearing impairment common, perhaps preventable, chronic disease among middle-aged adults

Monday, February 21, 2011 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

Several factors may be associated with hearing impairment in middle-aged adults, including cardiovascular disease risks, being male and having a noisy job, according to a report published online first in the Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The paper will be appear in the May print issue of the journal.

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