Exploring the association between secondhand smoke exposure and hearing loss among U.S. nonsmokers.

PLoS One · 2025 · PMC12404503 · PMID 40892806

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did not reach statistical significancep = .07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Of note, SHS exposure was positively associated with high-frequency hearing threshold but did not reach statistical significance at p = .07 in our study.

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