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Article: Alcohol consumption can damage hearing.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- April 5, 2004
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2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although alcohol researchers believe that drinking can cause brain damage, the quantity of alcohol and the length of time needed to accomplish this remain unknown.
In Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, scientists in Germany specified the damage that cumulative, life-long alcohol consumption can inflict on central auditory pathways, which is reflected as hearing loss.
"The main problem with identifying alcohol-related brain damage has been to identify those lesions caused by alcohol itself vs. those caused by other common alcohol-related factors, such as thiamin deficiency," said Elisabeth Stephanie ...