Even beautiful music may pose hearing-loss risk to pros

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Even beautiful music may pose hearing-loss risk to pros

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/even-beautiful-music-may-pose-hearing-loss-risk-175946433.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/fRmTlh8jEwTkLR3gTamc3A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-09T175946Z_1_LYNXMPEA480JJ_RTROPTP_2_BRAZIL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The audience attends a concert by Capital Inicial at the Rock in Rio Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro" align="left" title="The audience attends a concert by Capital Inicial at the Rock in Rio Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro" border="0" /></a>By Allison Bond NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether playing in a symphony orchestra or a rock concert, professional musicians may have almost four times the risk of hearing loss as their audience does, according to a new study. “I have heard many, many famous musicians say that they would give back all of their success if the ringing in the ears and hearing loss would improve,” said Rick Friedman, a professor of otolaryngology and neurosurgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. Tania Schink at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS in Bremen, and her colleagues looked at data from three German insurance agencies to compare diagnosed hearing problems among musicians and the general population. Of the more than 3.3 million people ages 18 to 66 insured by the companies between 2004 and 2008, more than 2,000 were identified as professional musicians by federal employment data.</p><br clear="all"/>

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