"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2010-08-05, Peter Larsen wrote:

There is no good reason I am aware of - but I am unskilled - to assume
that
age related hearing loss is anything but simple noise damage.

There's a perfectly good reason. Why does your hair go grey, your skin
lose
its elasticity and your eyesight lose accommodation? Why shouldn't
cochlear hair cells suffer age related degeneration also?

I'm sure age is a factor but I do worry that we live in a world where our
ears may be exposed to noises of considerably greater intensity than they
evolved to cope with.

Tim