title: The prevalence of handicapping hearing loss in a middle-aged population in Finland.
abstract: Screening audiometry was performed during the years 1973-1978 in a total of 11,744 subjects aged 35-50 years. The incidence of those persons having a mean hearing threshold of 30 dB or more at 0.5-2 kHz or of 50 dB or more at 2 kHz varied from 0.3% to 2.7% in males of different age subgroups. The results for females were about two-thirds of those for males. Overall, 1.5% of the Finnish population aged 35-54 years were found to be candidates for hearing rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Otolaryngology, Tampere University Central Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rahko
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Karma
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pitkäjärvi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nurminen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kataja
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D014505:Urban Population