Wendu Pang, Junhong Li, Ke Qiu, Xiaowei Yi, Danni Cheng, Yufang Rao, Yao Song, Di Deng, Minzi Mao, Xiaohong Li, Ning Ma, Daibo Chen, Yi Luo, Wei Xu, Jianjun Ren, Yu Zhao
OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between body composition and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study, prospective study and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses. SETTING: UK Biobank. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 147,296 adult participants with complete data on body composition and the speech-reception-threshold (SRT) test. We further conducted a prospective study with 129,905 participants without SNHL at baseline and followed up to 15 years to explore the association between body composition and new-onset SNHL...
March 19, 2023: Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery