New study finds that nearly 10% of U.S. adults experience tinnitus.
Dr. Harrison Lin, a researcher at the University of California, Irvine, notes that “the new study as well as a number of previous studies have point to noise exposure as the probable contributor to the issue.” Think that tinnitus is just a little ringing in your ears that will go away? Wrong. The study reported that “[m]ore than 33 per cent of respondents reported almost constant symptoms,” and those symptoms could interfere with “thinking, emotions, hearing, sleep and concentration.”
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