Hearing-impaired adults are nearly twice as likely as those with healthy ears to have chronic fatigue starting in middle age as they strain to process sounds, a study has found.
Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery. They examined the responses of 3,031 people 40 and older to a national health survey administered between 2015 and 2018, including 2,318 people with normal hearing and 713 with hearing loss.
The study is the first national research confirming that the “concentration and energy” that hearing-impaired people use to pick up sounds damages their long-term health, said audiologist Nicholas S. Reed, a co-author of the report and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The study found that adults with hearing loss were more likely than others to experience fatigue independent of other potential risk factors like overall health, depression, age, sex, smoking, drinking, occupation and noise exposure. According to Mr. Reed, trying to hear sounds with hearing loss is like listening to a “bad cellphone signal,” with “bits and pieces of information” coming through that are difficult to process.
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