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Presbycusis phenotypes form a heterogeneous continuum when ordered by degree and configuration of hearing loss.
Hearing research - 1 Jun 2010
Allen Paul D, Eddins David A
Abstract excerpt
Many reports have documented age-by-frequency increases in average auditory thresholds in various human populations. Despite this, the prevalence of different patterns of hearing loss in presbycusis remains uncertain. We examined 'presbycusis phenotypes' in a database of 960 subjects (552 female, 408 male, 18-92 years) that each had 30 measures of peripheral hearing sensitivity: pure tone audiograms for left and...
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