Does loud
music wreck your hearing?
Loud music
damages your hearing — a warning that we're used to taking as fact. But surprisingly,
little research has actually been done into how sustained exposure to loud
music affects our hearing in the long term, and the results we do have are far
from conclusive.
A new
research project taking place at the National Institute for Health Research
(NIHR) National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, based at The University of
Nottingham, is the first to explicitly examine the effect of long-term exposure
to loud music. Researchers are looking to recruit 2,000 volunteers from an
'older generation of music listeners' in a large-scale study that is the first
of its kind in the world.
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