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Hearing aids may help people live longer, study suggests

Hearing aids may help people with hearing loss live longer than those who do not use the devices, new research suggests.

The findings indicate that hearing aids reduce the risk of death by almost 25%, and that those who do not use hearing aids but should, may want to reconsider.

Past research has suggested that untreated hearing loss

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