Taking vitamin supplements for overall well-being is a health-related tactic that millions of Americans use every year to try to stay trim and energetic. Studies have shown that dietary supplements may improve the bodys nutrition levels, contribute valuable minerals to a daily diet or even lower blood pressure or improve digestion, depending on their contents.
Now, research conducted at Vanderbilt University and Australias University of Sydney has determined that people who take supplements containing vitamins A and E had a lower incidence of hearing loss than those who dont.
The report, which was published in the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, found that participants who took those vitamins the most often had the lowest likelihood of hearing loss.
Researchers estimated that each standard deviation increase in the consumption of vitamins A and E resulted in a 14 percent reduction in this risk, even after they adjusted the results for age, gender, occupational hearing damage, a family history of hearing impairment and other factors.
An estimated 36 million Americans have some level of hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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