Objectives Parental suspicion of hearing impairment in their children is generally inaccurate.
Parents tend to underestimate hearing problems in their children. The aim of the study was …

Objectives/Hypothesis To describe the prevalence of reported tinnitus and tinnitus handicap
in the all–African American Jackson Heart Study (JHS) cohort, with assessment of the …

Speech detection threshold (SDT) depends on audibility alone, whereas speech recognition
threshold (SRT) requires the stimuli to be heard and identified. The aim of the study was to …

Objectives Routines for school hearing screening vary between municipalities in Sweden,
and no study has been carried out to investigate how this is conducted throughout the …

Objectives/Hypothesis The objective of this study was to determine the audiological profile of
an African American cohort, identify related factors, and compare them to other datasets …

Objectives/Hypothesis To evaluate the relationships among measures of physical activity
and hearing in the Jackson Heart Study. Study Design Prospective cohort study. Methods …

Objective Early detection and effective management of hearing loss constitute the key to
improving the quality of life of individuals with hearing loss. However, in standardized pure …

Objectives/Hypothesis To evaluate the relationships among measures of stroke risk and
hearing in an African American cardiovascular study cohort. Study Design Prospective …

Background Speech audiometry is utilised for diagnostic and rehabilitative purposes.
Speech audiometry involves materials linguistic in nature. The ideal protocol is to have a …

Introduction presbyacusis is age-related hearing loss, manifesting as a bilateral symmetrical
sensorineural hearing loss of adult-onset. It has different audiometric configurations and is …