Components of Metabolic Syndrome as Risk Factors for Hearing Threshold Shifts

• Yu-Shan Sun,

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Wen-Hui Fang,

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Tung-Wei Kao,

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Hui-Fang Yang,

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Tao-Chun Peng,

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Li-Wei Wu,

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Yaw-Wen Chang,

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Chang-Yi Chou,

  Affiliation Department of surgery, Division of plastic surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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• Wei-Liang Chen

  * E-mail: weiliang0508@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital; and School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

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