Highly variable population-based prevalence rates of unilateral hearing loss after the application of common case definitions

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-133

  Ross, Danielle S ^a   Visser, Susanna N ^a   Holstrum, W June ^b   Qin, Tielin ^a   Kenneson, Aileen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b McKing Consulting Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149136629     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181bb69db     Document Type: Article

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