Obese Teens Face Higher Risk Of Hearing Loss, Study Finds The findings, published in the journal The Laryngoscope , show that obese teens have a nearly doubled risk of one-sided low-frequency hearing loss, and are also more likely than their normal-weight peers to experience any kind of hearing loss.
June 19, 2013 - The Huffington Post
Researchers Link Obesity To Hearing Loss In Kids April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center shows obese adolescents are more likely to have hearing loss problems than their normal-weight peers. The study findings, published in The Laryngoscope , demonstrated that obese adolescents have increased hearing loss across all frequencies and were almost twice as likely to ...
June 18, 2013 - redOrbit