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

Murphy WJ; Themann CL; Stephenson MR

J Acoust Soc Am 2006 May; 119(5):3268

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4786130

20045235

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.

Hearing-level; Hearing-loss; Hearing-acuity; Health-surveys; Age-factors; Age-groups; Information-retrieval-systems; Physical-examination; Racial-factors; Sex-factors; Audiological-testing; Audiometry

William J. Murphy, Hearing Loss Prevention Team, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-27, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998

JASMAN

20060501

Abstract

wjm4@cdc.gov

2006

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0001-4966

DART

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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