School of Physical Education (Main Campus), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Research Article
Positive Association between Hearing Impairment and Obesity in Adults Aged 20 Years and Older in US: Data from the 2015- 2016 National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES)
Author(s): 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, a.. View More»
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