Folic acid may slow age-related hearing loss, an Annals of Internal Medicine study shows. The study looked at 728 Dutch men and women aged 50 to 70. Unlike the U.S., the Netherlands does not require folic acid supplementation of flour. Participants in the Dutch study had high blood levels of homocysteine. Folic acid reduces homocysteine levels, so the Dutch study participants apparently consumed very little folic acid. Half the study participants got strong folic acid supplements -- 800 micrograms per day. The other participants got an inactive placebo pill. After three years, those who got folic acid pills had less low-frequency hearing loss than did placebo recipients.
Monday, January 22, 2007
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