MobiHealth News March 3, 2021
Jonah Comstock

One in four participants has a noise exposure over WHO’s daily limit and many have undiagnosed hearing loss.

In honor of World Hearing Day today, Apple and the University of Michigan (along with the World Health Organization) have released preliminary data from the Apple Hearing Study announced back in September 2019.

“WHO estimates that there’s about 450 million people around the world that have a hearing loss. That’s a tremendous public health burden – there’s not many other conditions that even approach numbers like that,” Rick Nietzel, associate professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in a briefing with journalists. “Chronic environmental noise exposures are now being increasingly linked to things like...

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