It’s official: loud music hurts kids’ hearing

According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 12 percent of children between the ages of six and 19 suffer from noise-induced hearing loss — about 5.2 million kids.

And although hearing experts have suspected for a long time that long-term hearing loss begins in childhood, the study is the first to show how common hearing impairment is among kids.
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