Thirty-year trends in sudden deafness from four nationwide epidemiological surveys in Japan

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1259-1265

  Teranishi, Masaaki ^a   Katayama, Naomi ^a,b   Uchida, Yasue ^c   Tominaga, Mitsuo ^d   Nakashima, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Handa City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Hypertension; Nationwide epidemiological survey; Sudden deafness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36448959108     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701242410     Document Type: Article

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