Addressing Estimated Hearing Loss in Adults in 2060

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Jul 1;143(7):733-734. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2016.4642.

¹ Johns Hopkins Center on Aging & Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland2Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Johns Hopkins Center on Aging & Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland2Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland3Departments of Epidemiology, Geriatric Medicine, and Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

This population epidemiology study uses data from the NHANES to estimate the number of adults expected to have hearing loss in the next 43 years.