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Prevalence of hearing impairment in the elderly living at home

Using pure tone audiometry, we assessed the prevalence of hearing impairment in a sample of elderly people living at home and aged 70 or more. Deafness was defined as an average loss over the speech frequencies at 1 kHz, 2 kHz and 4 kHz of 35 db or more in the better ear. We found that 60 per cent o...

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Autori principali: Herbst, Katia Gilhome, Humphrey, Charlotte
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 1981
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971950/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7277293
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