Common painkillers increase risk of hearing loss

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Published: 7:30AM GMT 01 March 2010

Millions of Britons are thought to take aspirin each day in the goal of warding off a heart attack, since of the red blood thinning properties.

Men next 60 were a third some-more expected to have conference problems if they continually took aspirin, the investigate found.

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However there was no larger risk in those over 60, the commentary suggest.

For paracetamol users the risks were even higher.

For those underneath 50 the possibility of conference loss was effectively doubled, whilst those in their 50s were 38 per cent some-more expected to humour problems.

The risk, however, one after an additional to tumble as volunteers got older.

Those elderly 60 and over were sixteen per cent some-more expected to have worry conference than those of a identical age who did not continually take the drug.

For the category of Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs), that embody Ibuprofen, they were found to enlarge the risk by 61 per cent for the underneath 50s, 32 per cent for those in their 50s and sixteen per cent for those elderly 60 and over.

The findings, by researchers from Harvard University Brigham and Women"s Hospital, Vanderbilt University and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston are published in the American Journal of Medicine.

More than million people in Britain are thought to humour from a little kind of conference loss, creation it one of the majority usual health problems in the country.

Experts advise that even amiable conference problems can lead to amicable isolation, basin and poorer peculiarity of life.

Previous studies have shown that unchanging make make make make make use of of of of of of aspirin can lead to conference problems.

However, the researchers contend that paracetamol and NSAIDS were not deliberate to means conference problems.

They advise that the goods of the drug is an critical open health issue.

The investigate followed 26,000 men each 2 years for eighteen years.

The volunteers were all since questionnaires last how mostly they took the drugs, the border of the conference loss that they had suffered and a accumulation of alternative physiological, healing and amicable factors.

Regular make make make make make use of of of of of was tangible as receiving the drug at slightest twice a week.

Dr Sharon Curhan, from the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women"s Hospital in Boston, one of the authors of the study, said:: "Regular make make make make make use of of of of of of (these drugs) competence enlarge the risk of adult conference loss, quite in younger individuals.

"Given the high superiority of unchanging drug make make make make make use of of of of of and health and amicable implications of conference impairment, this represents an critical open health issue."

There are around 9 million deaf and listened of conference people in Britain, some-more than 6.5 million of whom are elderly over 60.

Around dual million people opposite the nation now make make make make make use of of of of of a conference aid, but it is thought that an additional 4 million could good from one.