Five-year changes in middle ear function for older adults

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 129-139

  Wiley, Terry L ^a   Nondahl, David M ^b   Cruickshanks, Karen J ^b,c   Tweed, Ted S ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Admittance; Aging; Immittance; Middle ear; Presbyacusis; Tympanometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARDRUM; HEARING DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 22844446277     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.3.2     Document Type: Article

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