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Santiago Urquijo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Regular use of hearing aids is associated with decreased death rates in U.S. adults with hearing loss, a new study out of USC found. The findings highlight the importance of encouraging people to use hearing aids and of ensuring everyone who needs hearing aids can get them, according to the study s authors. "Hearing is so important for just maintaining health across our life course," said Dr. Frank Lin, director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins and an author on the study. The World Health Organization estimates that by 2050, seven million people 1 out of every 14 people will have hearing loss severe enough to require treatment. The most common causes of hearing loss are exposure to loud noises and natural aging-related degeneration, both of which affect the inner hair cells of the ear, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Everyone will develop some degree of hearing

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