Hearing loss among adolescents has increased by over 30 percent since around 1990, and now nearly 1-in-5 teenagers shows some degree of significant hearing loss, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). More disturbing, doctors are at a loss to explain the reason for the dramatic increase.
Don't music players with ear-buds seem like the obvious reason?
From Hearing Loss in Teens Spikes Mysteriously by Christopher Wanjek, August 17, 2010, at Live Science.
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