New York (June 12, 2007)--A study recently presented at the American Academy of Audiology annual meeting confirmed that musicians suffer a higher incidence of hearing loss than the non-noise exposed population at large. Funded by Shure Incorporated, the study was based upon the joint research of Shanda Brashears-Morlet of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Michael Santucci of Chicago-based Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation, and Thierry G. Morlet from the Auditory Physiology and Psychoacoustics Laboratory at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE.