A Loud Warning: Millions of People Do Not Protect Their Ears
From: Scientific American - 06/2017
By: Mark Fischetti

Millions of people do not protect themselves against dangerously loud noise

Modern life can be deafening. Yet even though many people know that they
should use earplugs or earmuffs when mowing the lawn or partying at the club,
they do not do so, according to a sweeping analysis by Harrison Lin, an ear
surgeon at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center and his
colleagues. They also found that a large percentage of Americans who work at
very loud jobs do not protect their ears. Given safety guidelines, that is
concerning. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that one in five people in their
20s now has some hearing loss, probably because he or she is cranking up the
volume while wearing earbuds for music or video games. "Our ears have not
evolved to handle such trauma," Lin says.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-loud-warning-millions-of-people-do-not-protect-their-ears

Links:
Study identifies rates, severity of tinnitus in US
https://news.uci.edu/health/lin-led-study-identifies-rates-severity-of-tinnitus-in-the-u-s

Harrison Lin
http://www.ucirvinehealth.org/find-a-doctor/l/harrison-lin
http://www.ent.uci.edu/faculty/harrison-lin-md.asp

UCI Center for Hearing Research
http://chr.ss.uci.edu