The Apple Hearing Study, a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Apple, is a study of over 160,000 consented participants in the United States. Since 2019, results from this study have enabled novel scientific insights into noise exposure, tinnitus, and hearing loss in adults....
The study reinforces known links between noise exposure and hearing loss at population scale; clinicians should continue counseling patients on hearing protection, but await full peer-reviewed publication before altering specific screening or treatment protocols.
With over 160,000 participants, this is one of the largest real-world hearing health datasets ever assembled, potentially reshaping public health guidance on noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus prevalence.
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