Poor Sleep Heightens “Ringing Ear” Disease Symptoms, Henry Ford Health System Study

For people with tinnitus, which features chronic ringing, buzzing, hissing or clicking in the head and ears, poor sleep makes it even more difficult to cope with the condition, researchers have found. The study included 117 tinnitus patients treated at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit between 2009 and 2011. The more severe the patients’ insomnia, the greater their complaints about their tinnitus symptoms and the worse their emotional distress, the findings showed.

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