A longitudinal study of the association between tooth loss and age-related hearing loss

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 129-140

  Lawrence, Herenia P ^a   Garcia, Raul I ^b,c   Essick, Gregory K ^d   Hawkins, Robert ^a   Krall, Elizabeth A ^c   Spiro, Avron ^b,c   Vokonas, Pantel S ^b   Kong, Lan ^e   King, Tonya ^e,f   Koch, Gary G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Epidemiology; Longitudinal study; Puretone audiometry; Sensorineural conductive hearing loss; Tooth loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH OCCLUSION; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY; BOSTON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRESBYCUSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH LOSS; VERTICAL DIMENSION; VETERANS;

EID: 0035409851     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2001.tb00242.x     Document Type: Article

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