Yiwen Cao, Jipeng Zhang and Rui Feng*
Background: People are exposed to noise sources, diseases or accidents in their daily work and life, resulting in different degrees of hearing damage. On the basis of previous studies on hearing impairment caused by obesity, we put forward the opposite hypothesis. What is the relationship between hearing impairment and the incidence of obesity?
Objective: We analyzed the relationship between hearing status and obesity in order to make some suggestions for people who are obese due to hearing impairment.
Materials and methods: In this study, 4391 adults aged 20 and above were randomly selected from the 2015-2016 National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES), including 2149 males and 2242 females, with an average age of 49.43 ± 17.590 The count variables were tested by Chi-square test, and measurement variables were tested by Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test. Hearing impairment as an independent variable, obesity as a dependent variable. Binary Logistic regression analysis was performed on the above variables.
Results: After excluding confounding factors, the Odds Ratio (OR) of hearing impairment and obesity was 1.100 (95%CI:1.030-1.174, P<0.01).
Conclusion: Hearing impairment is a risk factor for obesity. The higher the degree of hearing impairment, the higher the risk of obesity.
Published Date: 2023-12-04; Received Date: 2023-11-02
