Pure-tone thresholds have long served as a gold standard for evaluating hearing sensitivity
and documenting hearing changes related to medical treatments, toxic or otherwise …

BACKGROUND For medical tests that have a central role in clinical decision-making, current
guidelines advocate outcome-based analytical performance specifications. Given that …

Objective: Tinnitus is a common otological condition that affects almost 10% of US adults.
Research suggests that college students are vulnerable to tinnitus and hearing loss as they …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between recreational
sound exposure and potentially undiagnosed or subclinical hearing loss by assessing …

Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and hearing thresholds (HTs) are widely
used to evaluate auditory physiology. DPOAEs are sensitive to cochlear amplification …

Importance Portable music player use may have harmful effects on hearing. The magnitude
and effect of frequent music exposure, especially at younger ages, on hearing are unclear …

Hearing loss (HL) is the third most common chronic physical condition in the United States.
Obesity has become an increasingly important public health concern, as the prevalence in …

Background: The definition of notched audiogram for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is
presently based on clinical experience, but audiometric phenotypes of NIHL are highly …

Research suggests that college-aged adults are vulnerable to tinnitus and hearing loss due
to exposure to traumatic levels of noise on a regular basis. Recent human studies have …

Background Over 1 billion young adults are at risk for developing noise-induced hearing
loss (NIHL) due to their habit of listening to music at loud levels. The gold standard for …