The Reduction in the Age-Adjusted Prevalence of Hearing Impairment in the United States-Reply

Affiliations

¹ Epidemiology and Statistics Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio.
³ Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Comment

Howard J Hoffman et al. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017.

. 2017 Sep 1;143(9):957-958.

doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2017.0687.

¹ Epidemiology and Statistics Program, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio.
³ Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

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