Odds of demonstrating auditory processing abnormality in the average older adult: The blue mountains hearing study

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-138

  Golding, Maryanne ^a   Taylor, Alan ^b   Cupples, Linda ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY PROCESSING ABNORMALITY; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MACQUARIE DICHOTIC SENTENCE IDENTIFICATION TEST; MACQUARIE SYNTHETIC SENTENCE IDENTIFICATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; ODDS RATIO; PRESBYCUSIS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746532177     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000202328.19037.ff     Document Type: Article

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