According to new research, more than 1 billion teenagers and young adults may be at risk for hearing loss since they use headphones and earbuds and frequent loud music venues.
Governments, businesses, and civic society must prioritize preventing global hearing loss by promoting safe listening habits, the researchers added.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 430 million individuals worldwide have hearing loss that is incapacitating.
Young people are particularly at risk because they use personal listening devices (PLDs) including cellphones, headphones, and earbuds, as well as frequent loud music venues in the face of lax regulatory enforcement, according to to study published in the journal BMJ Global Health.
According to previously published research, PLD users typically select sound settings up to 105 dB, while typical sound levels at entertainment venues ranging from 104 to 112 dB, above safe levels (80 dB for adults; 75 dB for children), even if only for brief periods of time.
According to research, PLD use and attendance at loud entertainment venues are linked to dangerous listening behaviors in teens and young people globally by 24% and 48%, respectively, in a pooled examination of data.
The researchers estimate that between 0.67 and 1.35 billion teenagers and young adults globally may be at risk of hearing loss based on these figures.
The absence of standardized methods and the various study designs, which are peculiar to studies on entertainment venues, are two notable drawbacks that the researchers recognize apply to their findings.
