Obesity associated with hearing loss in adolescents
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
Obese adolescents are more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to have hearing loss, according to results of a new study. Findings showed that obese adolescents had increased hearing loss across all frequencies and were almost twice as likely to have unilateral (one-sided) low-frequency hearing loss.