Hearing threshold levels at age 70 years (65-74 years) in the unscreened older adult population of the United States, 1959-1962 and 1999-2006

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• Personal Author:
  Dobie RA ; Hoffman HJ ; Ko C-W ; Murphy, William J. ; Themann, Christa L.
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Demography Hearing Hearing Loss Men Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Demographic-characteristics Hearing-acuity Hearing-impairment Hearing-loss Hearing-threshold Statistical-analysis
• ISSN:
  0196-0202
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  437-440
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040096
• Citation:
  Ear Hear 2012 May/Jun; 33(3):437-440
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Ear and Hearing
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c03a83661b0c34eacd050615dd3125c3c42f26c3f227833e1e64cc505c2f053148d555705c9c4c0ccd505de435c002169017a0fea2111e00cfe986fc1f2a959
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193073/cdc_193073_DS1.pdf
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