ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2017
Skin Pigmentation and Risk of Hearing Loss in Women.
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- The Neuromelanin Paradox and Its Dual Role in Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Hearing Loss and Cognition: What We Know and Where We Need to Go.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Review
- Association of Audiometric Age-Related Hearing Loss With Depressive Symptoms Among Hispanic Individuals.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2019Article
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Abstract
Black individuals have a lower risk of hearing loss than do whites, possibly because of differences in cochlear melanocytes. Previous studies have suggested that darker-skinned individuals tend to have more inner ear melanin, and cochlear melanocytes are important in generating the endocochlear potential. We investigated the relationship between self-reported hearing loss and skin pigmentation by using hair color, skin tanning ability, and skin reaction to prolonged sun exposure as surrogate measures of pigmentation among 49,323 white women in the Nurses' Health Study. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to adjust for potential confounders. During 1,190,170 person-years of follow-up (1982-2012), there was no association between risk of hearing loss and hair color (for black hair vs. red or blonde hair, multivariable-adjusted relative risk (RR) = 0.99, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.90, 1.09), skin tanning ability (for dark tan vs. no tan, multivariable-adjusted RR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.92, 1.05), skin reaction to prolonged sun exposure (for painful burn with blisters vs. practically no reaction, multivariable-adjusted RR = 1.01, 95% CI: 0.93, 1.08), or Fitzpatrick skin phototype (for type IV vs. type I, multivariable-adjusted RR = 0.99, 95% CI: 0.92, 1.05). In our cohort of white women, surrogates for skin pigmentation were not associated with risk of hearing loss.
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