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Soldier’s Story Illustrates Risks of Hearing Loss During War
…he couldn’t hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming from. “I had no idea,” he wrote.
To sleep, he listens to rock music on his iPod, a common means of coping for troops with tinnitus, says Army MAJ Dan Ohama, an audiologist working in Baghdad.
Higher Rates of Hearing Loss are Found
Among people 20 to 29, it said, 8.5 percent showed some hearing loss, with the incidence apparently on the rise.
A new study suggests that hearing loss among Americans may be more widespread than previously thought.