ArticleAlcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)2015
Prospective study of alcohol consumption and self-reported hearing loss in women.
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- Protective effects of dietary nutrients on hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Association between hypertension and hearing loss: a systemic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Influence of Alcohol Consumption on the Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Among Women in the Nurses' Health Study Cohorts.Arthritis care & research · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of cooking with solid fuel on hearing loss in Chinese adults-Based on two cohort studies.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between genetic risk and adherence to healthy lifestyle for developing age-related hearing loss.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Hearing Impairment: a Study on 200 Subjects.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the polygenic architecture of hearing problems in adults.Genome medicine · 2023Article
- Sex differences in noise-induced hearing loss: a cross-sectional study in China.Biology of sex differences · 2021Article
- Role of CASP7 polymorphisms in noise-induced hearing loss risk in Han Chinese population.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Hearing Status of Low-Income, Middle-Aged and Elderly Women in Northern China: A Population-Based, Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
- Cigarette Smoking, Smoking Cessation, and Risk of Hearing Loss in Women.The American journal of medicine · 2020Article
- Prospective Study of Dietary Patterns and Hearing Threshold Elevation.American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Paraoxonase 3 gene polymorphisms are associated with occupational noise-induced deafness: A matched case-control study from China.PloS one · 2020Observational
- Hearing Loss in Agricultural Workers Exposed to Pesticides and Noise.Annals of work exposures and health · 2019Article
- Hazardous Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Hearing Impairment in Adults Based on the Korean National Health and Nutrition Survey: A Retrospective Study.Journal of audiology & otology · 2019Article
- Association between self-reported hearing impairment and diabetes: a Brazilian population-based study: Association between self-reported hearing impairment and diabetes in adults.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2018Article
- Menopause and postmenopausal hormone therapy and risk of hearing loss.Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · 2017Article
- Skin Pigmentation and Risk of Hearing Loss in Women.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Gender Differences in the Association between Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Hearing Threshold Shifts.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Chronic excess alcohol intake has been associated with irreversible hearing loss and acute alcohol intake may temporarily impair auditory function; however, some evidence suggests that long-term moderate alcohol intake may be related to lower risk of hearing loss. This study prospectively examined the association between total alcohol and individual alcoholic beverage consumption and risk of hearing loss in women. Data were prospectively collected from 65,424 participants in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II), aged 27-44 years at baseline (follow-up 1991-2009). Alcohol consumption was assessed using a validated questionnaire every 4 years. An incident case was defined as a self-reported hearing problem that began after 1991. Cox proportional hazards multivariate regression was used to adjust for potential confounders. During 1,024,555 person-years of follow-up, 12,384 cases of hearing loss occurred. After multivariate adjustment, there was no significant association between total alcohol consumption and risk of hearing loss. In exploratory analyses, beer consumption was associated with increased risk and wine consumption was associated with reduced risk. No significant association was observed for consumption of liquor. Total alcohol consumption is not associated with risk of hearing loss in women. The modest associations observed for beer (direct) and wine (inverse) may be due to chance or residual confounding but merit further study.
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