Better Hearing in Norway: A Comparison of Two HUNT Cohorts 20 Years Apart.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To obtain updated robust data on a age-specific prevalence of hearing loss in Norway and determine whether more recent birth cohorts have better hearing compared with earlier birth cohorts.

Design

Cross-sectional analyzes of Norwegian representative demographic and audiometric data from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)-HUNT2 Hearing (1996-1998) and HUNT4 Hearing (2017-2019), with the following distribution: HUNT2 Hearing (N=50,277, 53% women, aged 20 to 101 years, mean = 50.1, standard deviation = 16.9); HUNT4 Hearing (N=28,339, 56% women, aged 19 to 100 years, mean = 53.2, standard deviation = 16.9). Pure-tone hearing thresholds were estimated using linear and quantile regressions with age and cohort as explanatory variables. Prevalences were estimated using

SUBMITTER: Engdahl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757742 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature