Study Finds Potential Link Between Hearing Loss and Obesity

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Study Finds Potential Link Between Hearing Loss and Obesity

A new study has concluded that being obese -- particularly if you pack extra pounds around your waist -- could be linked to hearing loss. Findings appeared in the American Journal of Medicine. Lead author was Dr. Sharon Curhan of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Scientists followed more than 68,000 women who took part in the Harvard Nurses' Health Study and who submitted answers to questions about health and daily habits every two years between 1989 and 2009, MSN reports.

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