Hearing levels in US adults aged 20-69 years - National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004.

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• Personal Author:
  Murphy, William J. ; Stephenson, Mark R. ; Themann, Christa L.
• Description:
  The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a nationally representative, population-based survey designed to assess the health and nutritional status of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population. Data were collected through a personal interview regarding health history and through physical examination. Earlier NHANES surveys were conducted on a periodic basis; however, in 1999, NHANES began collecting data on a continuing, annual basis. During NHANES I, which ran from 1971 to 1975, audiometrictesting was conducted on adults aged 25-74 years. No subsequent testing of adults was conducted in the NHANES program until 1999, when NHANES began audiometrictesting of adults aged 20-69 years. In 2004, the sampling from this age group was completed. This report examines the hearing levels for adults in the United States and compares them with the hearing data from NHANES I. Hearing levels are grouped by age and by ethnicity and gender. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Hearing Hearing Loss Noise Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Sense Organs Sex Characteristics Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Hearing-level; Hearing-loss; Hearing-acuity; Health-surveys; Age-factors; Age-groups; Information-retrieval-systems; Physical-examination; Racial-factors; Sex-factors; Audiological-testing; Audiometry
• ISSN:
  0001-4966
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  119
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045235
• Citation:
  J Acoust Soc Am 2006 May; 119(5):3268
• Contact Point Address:
  William J. Murphy, Hearing Loss Prevention Team, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-27, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998
• Email:
  wjm4@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248249/cdc_248249_DS1.pdf
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