National Taiwan University College of Medicine study found that obesity is caused by the rapid degradation of the elderly hearing one of the risk factors.

Dalin Tzu Chi participated in the study of Wen-Yao Yin, vice president of the hospital revealed that obesity during the prime of life from these people started to damage their hearing, and hearing loss in elderly men is the extent of degradation of women 3 times. 55-year-old male and have thick waist ago, the same age than poorer men's hearing. Women after the menopause, due to the lack of protection of female hormones, with the waist of the hearing变粗also deteriorated sharply.

study emphasized that the higher the waist circumference is coarse, even though body mass index within the normal range, there is a higher risk of hearing degradation. And from the risk of men in the waist to less than 90 cm, women have to be within 80 cm.