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Study Shows That Certain Ethnicities Could Be More Prone to Hearing Loss With Apnea

Published on Tue Jun 17, 2014

High frequency hearing impairment outweighed low.  The research study found that about 10 percent of the 13,967 participants sampled had at least moderate sleep apnea. Nineteen percent had high frequency hearing impairment, 1.5 percent had low frequency hearing impairment, and 8.4 percent had both high and low frequency hearing impairment. Researchers determined these figures after controlling for other causes of [...]
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