作者
Frank R Lin, Roland Thorpe, Sandra Gordon-Salant, Luigi Ferrucci
发表日期
2011/5/1
期刊
Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biomedical Sciences and Medical Sciences
卷号
66
期号
5
页码范围
582-590
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Hearing loss has been associated with cognitive and functional decline in older adults and may be amenable to rehabilitative interventions, but national estimates of hearing loss prevalence and hearing aid use in older adults are unavailable.
Methods
We analyzed data from the 2005–2006 cycle of the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, which is the first cycle to ever incorporate hearing assessment in adults aged 70 years and older. Audiometry was performed in 717 older adults, and data on hearing aid use, noise exposure, medical history, and demographics were obtained from interviews. Analyses incorporated sampling weights to account for the complex sampling design and yield results that are generalizable to the U.S. population.
Results
The prevalence of hearing loss defined as a speech frequency pure tone average …
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