Generational differences in the prevalence of hearing impairment in older adults

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 260-266

  Zhan, Weihai ^a   Cruickshanks, Karen J ^a   Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a   Huang, Guan Hua ^b   Pankow, James S ^c   Gangnon, Ronald E ^a   Tweed, Theodore S ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age groups; Aging; Cohort effect; Hearing; Hearing loss; Logistic models; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING; LIFESTYLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM DISORDER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

BEAVER DAM; DODGE COUNTY [WISCONSIN]; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 73949139582     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp370     Document Type: Article

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