{"id":1439,"date":"2021-08-06T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:13:01","slug":"hearing-loss-increases-risk-of-accidental-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eoent.com\/hearing-loss-increases-risk-of-accidental-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Accidental Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you know that hearing loss increases your risk of an accidental injury? When you think about it, it makes sense: hearing loss lowers your awareness of what\u2019s going on around you. One study uncovered exactly how much more likely an accidental injury is for people with a hearing impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Study<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The study<\/a> was published in May of 2018 in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology \u2013 Head & Neck Surgery. <\/em>The research was conducted by experts at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Irvine and the Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of the study was to uncover whether hearing difficulty was associated with a risk of accidental injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study Methods<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Researchers used data from the CDC collected for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) between 2007 and 2015. For the survey, participants ranked their hearing abilities as excellent, good, a little trouble hearing, moderate trouble hearing, a lot of trouble hearing of deaf. Types of injury were classified as driving-related, work-related or leisure\/sport-related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of the total number, 2.8% of participants reported an accidental injury at some point in the previous three months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The types of injuries are broken down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n