Study links higher caffeine consumption with lower tinnitus risk

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Study links higher caffeine consumption with lower tinnitus risk

By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" - Tinnitus, an annoying ringing or buzzing in the ears, was less likely to occur in women who consumed the most caffeine, in a large study of nurses. “In the ear, nose and throat literature and textbooks they often tell people with tinnitus to avoid caffeine because it can make tinnitus worse, but there really wasn’t great data to even support that,” said the senior author of the new study, Dr. Gary Curhan, of the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Caffeine has long been thought to contribute to the development of tinnitus, but research has been lacking, Curhan and his coauthors write in The American Journal of Medicine. To assess the relationship, the researchers analyzed data on more than 65,000 women participants in the Nurses’ Health Study II. The women were in their 20s through 40s in 1991 and none had tinnitus at that point.

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