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Cigarette Smoking and Hearing Loss: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study
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CONTEXT: Clinical studies have suggested that cigarette smoking may be associated with hearing loss, a common condition affecting older adults. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between smoking and hearing loss. DESIGN: Population-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING: Community of Beaver Dam, Wis. PARTICIPANTS: Adults aged 48 to 92 years. Of 4541 eligible subjects, 3753 (83%) participated in the hearing study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The examination included otoscopy, screening tympanometry, and pure-tone air-conduction and bone-conduction audiometry. Smoking history was ascertained by self-report. Hearing loss was defined as a pure-tone average (0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz) greater than 25-dB hearing level in the worse ear. RESULTS: After adjusting for other factors, current smokers were 1.69 times as likely to have a hearing loss as nonsmokers (95% confidence interval, 1.31-2.17). This relationship remained for those without a history of occupational noise exposure and in analyses excluding those with non-age-related hearing loss. There was weak evidence of a dose-response effect. Nonsmoking participants who lived with a smoker were more likely to have a hearing loss than those who were not exposed to a household member who smoked (odds ratio, 1.94; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-3.74). CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that environmental exposures may play a role in age-related hearing loss. If longitudinal studies confirm these findings, modification of smoking habits may prevent or delay age-related declines in hearing sensitivity.
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- Cruickshanks, K. J., Klein, R., Klein, B. E. K., Wiley, T. L., Nondahl, D. M., & Tweed, T. S.
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1998-06-03
- Volume
- 279
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 1715
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2010135815
- Cited by
- 425
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 6.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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