Association of central obesity with the severity and audiometric configurations of age-related hearing impairment

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1796-1801

  Hwang, Juen Haur ^a,b,c   Wu, Chen Chi ^c,d   Hsu, Chuan Jen ^d   Liu, Tien Chen ^d   Yang, Wei Shiung ^c,d  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OBESITY; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TAIWAN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 69749112231     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.66     Document Type: Article

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