Sleep characteristics and hearing loss in middle-aged and older adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-2018^✰.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population-based evidence linking sleep characteristics with hearing is limited and how the associations change with age remains unknown. We aim to investigate cross-sectional associations between sleep characteristics and hearing by age in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.

Methods

We included 3,100 participants aged 40 years and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-18. Audiometric hearing thresholds at 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 kilohertz were averaged to calculate better-ear pure-tone average (PTA). Sleep questions were self-reported, including sleep duration on weekdays or workdays, snoring, snorting or stopping breathing, trouble sleeping, and daytime sleepiness. Multivariable-adjusted linear regression with an interaction

SUBMITTER: Jiang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781046 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature