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HealthDay News: Hearing Loss More Common in Older White Adults Versus Blacks

Reporting by Physician's Briefing Staff

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The likelihood of hearing loss is nearly double in older White adults versus older Black adults, according to a study published online Dec. 13 in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.


ZhiDi Deng, from University of Toronto, and colleagues assessed racial differences in self-reported hearing loss among older U.S. adults (65 years and older). The analysis included data from 467,789 non-Hispanic White and 45,105 non-Hispanic Black participants in the 2016 and 2017 American Community Survey.


The researchers found that the prevalence of hearing loss was markedly higher among.....


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