Mankind stalls due to loud music on headphones

Modern life is too loud, experts say. The UK is already one in six adult residents observed a hearing problem, and the reason for this could be love listening to loud music.

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Scientists from the British Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Medical Research have decided to find out the extent to which almost a century loud music   impact on the number of people who have hearing problems . To answer this question, it was a large-scale study that included a survey of representatives of different age groups that, and how loud they listen to and check them at the hearing included extraneous noise.

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It turned out that today one in six British has some hearing problems . The reason for their appearance can be, in particular, and loud music . Over the past 20 years the number of people who can not hear his companions at any extraneous noise (vehicles traveling outside the window, the sound operation of construction equipment, etc.) increased by 12%. Experts believe that this number will continue to grow.

"A lot of research on the effect of music listening was associated exclusively with hearing musicians who are constantly subjected to a powerful noise levels, - said the head of the research project Dr. Michael Akeroyd. - But much less is known about the cumulative effect of loud music, which exposed the audience to concerts and those who listen to different music players. In 1923, the loudest sounds of gramophone sounded negligibly low in comparison with those columns which today are used in all sorts of concerts and even in comparison with the headphones. We must remember that the the damage we are doing to your hearing is irreversible. And deafness is not characteristic only of older people. With it, you can encounter at any age. " (READ MORE)

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