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. 2021 Sep 1;147(9):831-832.
doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2021.1572.

Prevalence Trends in Hearing Aid Use Among US Adults Aged 50 to 69 Years With Hearing Loss-2011 to 2016 vs 1999 to 2004

Harry C Wu  1 , Tara Thallmayer  2 , Jennifer A Deal  3 , Joshua F Betz  4 , Nicholas S Reed  3 , Frank R Lin  5
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Prevalence Trends in Hearing Aid Use Among US Adults Aged 50 to 69 Years With Hearing Loss-2011 to 2016 vs 1999 to 2004

Harry C Wu et al. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of hearing aid use among mid- to late-life older adults aged 50 to 69 years in 2011 to 2016 vs 1999 to 2004 in the US.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Lin is a consultant to Frequency Therapeutics, speaker honoraria from Caption Call, and director of a public health research center funded in part by a philanthropic gift from Cochlear Ltd to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr Reed is a scientific advisor (nonfinancial) to Shoebox, Inc. No other disclosures were reported.

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