Do Flights Affect Hearing in Hot Air Balloon Pilots?

CONCLUSION: In HAB pilots, in whom eustachian tube dysfunction is quite common, noise and high altitude affected hearing, especially low and high frequencies, and the duration of experience was found to be associated with hearing thresholds.PMID:37992408 | DOI:10.1044/2023_AJA-23-00126

Source: American Journal of Audiology - November 22, 2023 Category: Audiology Authors: Didem Sahin Ceylan Yeter Sacli Gokce Gultekin Busemnaz Avsar Aleyna Goncu Ozver Source Type: research