Assessing hearing loss in older adults with a single question and person characteristics; Comparison with pure tone audiometry in the Rotterdam Study.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Hearing loss (HL) is a frequent problem among the elderly and has been studied in many cohort studies. However, pure tone audiometry-the gold standard-is rather time-consuming and costly for large population-based studies. We have investigated if self-reported hearin...

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Main Authors: Berthe C Oosterloo, Nienke C Homans, Rob J Baatenburg de Jong, M Arfan Ikram, A Paul Nagtegaal, André Goedegebure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
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