Abstract
Objectives: To provide hearing threshold percentiles from unscreened older adults for creating new Annex B reference standards. Design: Percentiles are calculated, and 95% confidence intervals for medians from two U.S. surveys are compared graphically. Results: Median thresholds are lower (better) in the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for men across all frequencies except 1 kHz. Results for women are similar; however, there is more overlap in confidence intervals across frequencies. Conclusions: The prevalence of hearing impairment in older adults, age 70 years (65-74 years), is lower in 1999-2006 compared with 1959-1962, consistent with our earlier findings for younger adults.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 437-440 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Ear and hearing |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Speech and Hearing