One out of every eight Americans has hearing loss in both ears, according to a new study — and as many as one in five are hard of hearing on at least one side.
Researchers found that hearing problems were more common in men than in women and in whites than in blacks. As expected, they also increased with age.
The prevalence of hearing loss “was pretty shocking,” said Dr. Frank Lin, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, who worked on the study.
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