Prevalence of Concurrent Hearing and Visual Impairment in US Adults: The National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2002

Analysis of data from a nationally representative sample of US adults (n=195801) showed that concurrent hearing and visual impairment prevalence rates were highest for participants older than 79 years of age (16.6%); a 3-fold increase in age-adjusted rates of reported hearing and visual impairment w...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2005-11, Vol.95 (11), p.1940-1942
Main Authors: Caban, Alberto J, Lee, David J, Gomez-Marin, Orlando, Lam, Byron L, Zheng, D. Diane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Age
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Asian Americans
Biological and medical sciences
Blindness
Deafness
Eyes & eyesight
Female
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss - epidemiology
Hearing Loss - ethnology
Humans
Indians, North American
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Mortality
Native North Americans
Older people
Population
Prevalence
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Quality of life
Questionnaires
Research and Practice
Self report
Socioeconomic Factors
Software
Trends
United States - epidemiology
Vision Disorders - epidemiology
Vision Disorders - ethnology
Visual impairment
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Summary:Analysis of data from a nationally representative sample of US adults (n=195801) showed that concurrent hearing and visual impairment prevalence rates were highest for participants older than 79 years of age (16.6%); a 3-fold increase in age-adjusted rates of reported hearing and visual impairment was observed for Native Americans compared with Asian Americans. Research on preventing concurrent hearing and visual impairment and countering its consequences is warranted, especially in population subgroups, such as Native and older Americans.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2004.056671