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UF INSTITUTE ON AGING STUDY SHOWS CHRONIC PAIN MIGHT ACCELERATE BRAIN AGING
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Scientists have long recognized that the human brain appears to keep time to its own internal clock, its biological age speeding or slowing depending on a host of factors. A study led by a UF Institute on Aging researcher has found the brain age of older adults with chronic pain had accelerated by an average of two years. Individuals without chronic pain on average had a brain that appeared four years younger than their actual age. In previous studies, each year of older brain age relative to a person’s chronological age was predictive of about a 6% increase in the risk of death.
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A study by UF Health researchers shows antibiotic quinolone eardrops might cause a perforated eardrum, which can lead to hearing loss. Researchers in the UF colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine analyzed data from 94,000 children and adults with the acute otitis externa infection: They found more than a twofold increased risk of a perforated eardrum among patients receiving quinolone eardrops compared with those receiving another common antibiotic eardrop containing neomycin. That equated to 38 patients with a perforated eardrum among the 43,653 who received quinolone eardrops, compared with 25 among the 50,680 who received neomycin.