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Cigarette Smoking Causes Hearing Impairment among Bangladeshi Population

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  • Ahmed Faisal Sumit
  • Anindya Das
  • Zinat Sharmin
  • Nazmul Ahsan
  • Nobutaka Ohgami
  • Masashi Kato
  • Anwarul Azim Akhand

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Lifestyle including smoking, noise exposure with MP3 player and drinking alcohol are considered as risk factors for affecting hearing synergistically. However, little is known about the association of cigarette smoking with hearing impairment among subjects who carry a lifestyle without using MP3 player and drinking alcohol. We showed here the influence of smoking on hearing among Bangladeshi subjects who maintain a lifestyle devoid of using MP3 player and drinking alcohol. A total of 184 subjects (smokers: 90; non-smokers: 94) were included considering their duration and frequency of smoking for conducting this study. The mean hearing thresholds of non-smoker subjects at 1, 4, 8 and 12 kHz frequencies were 5.63±2.10, 8.56±5.75, 21.06±11.06, 40.79±20.36 decibel (dB), respectively and that of the smokers were 7±3.8, 13.27±8.4, 30.66±12.50 and 56.88±21.58 dB, respectively. The hearing thresholds of the smokers at 4, 8 and 12 kHz frequencies were significantly (p 5 years) showed higher level of auditory threshold (62.16±19.87 dB) at 12 kHz frequency compared with that (41.52±19.21 dB) of the subjects smoked for 1-5 years and the difference in auditory thresholds was statistically significant (p

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  • Ahmed Faisal Sumit & Anindya Das & Zinat Sharmin & Nazmul Ahsan & Nobutaka Ohgami & Masashi Kato & Anwarul Azim Akhand, 2015. "Cigarette Smoking Causes Hearing Impairment among Bangladeshi Population," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-12, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0118960
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118960
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    1. Xiang Li & Nobutaka Ohgami & Ichiro Yajima & Huadong Xu & Machiko Iida & Reina Oshino & Hiromasa Ninomiya & Dandan Shen & Nazmul Ahsan & Anwarul Azim Akhand & Masashi Kato, 2018. "Arsenic level in toenails is associated with hearing loss in humans," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(7), pages 1-12, July.

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