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Association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in Chinese working-aged adults: A population-based study

Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment, but limited studies focused on the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with hearing loss among adults of working age. This paper aimed to fill this gap among Chinese adults. We obtained data from Ear and Hearing Disorder Survey conducted in f...

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Autores principales: He, Ping, Luo, Yanan, Hu, Xiangyang, Gong, Rui, Wen, Xu, Zheng, Xiaoying
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195227
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author He, Ping
Luo, Yanan
Hu, Xiangyang
Gong, Rui
Wen, Xu
Zheng, Xiaoying
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Luo, Yanan
Hu, Xiangyang
Gong, Rui
Wen, Xu
Zheng, Xiaoying
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description Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment, but limited studies focused on the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with hearing loss among adults of working age. This paper aimed to fill this gap among Chinese adults. We obtained data from Ear and Hearing Disorder Survey conducted in four provinces of China in 2014–2015. The survey was based on WHO Ear and Hearing Disorders Survey Protocol and 25,860 adults aged 25 to 59 years were selected in this study. Trained local examiners performed pure tone audiometry to screen people with hearing loss, and those who were screened positively for hearing loss were referred to audiologists to make final diagnosis. SES was measured by occupation, education and income. Results show after adjusting for SES measures and covariates, in urban areas, compared with white-collar workers, blue-collar workers and the unemployed were more likely to have hearing loss, with an odds ratio of 1.2 (95%CI: 1.0, 1.3) and 1.2 (95%CI: 1.0, 1.4), respectively. Compared with people with education of senior high school or above, those with junior high school, primary school and illiteracy had 1.6 (95%CI: 1.4, 1.8), 2.1(95%CI: 1.7, 2.5) and 2.6 (95%CI: 1.9, 3.7) times as likely to have hearing loss, respectively. In rural areas, the unemployed had 1.5 (95%CI: 1.0, 2.3) times the risk of hearing loss compared with white-collar workers, and illiterates had 1.6 (95%CI: 1.6, 2.1) times the risk of hearing loss compared with people with education of senior high school or above, after SES variables and covariates were taken into considerations. Income was not significantly associated with hearing loss in urban and rural areas. In conclusion, SES, in the form of occupation and education, was associated with hearing loss among working-aged population, and further studies are needed to explore the mechanism of such association.
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spelling pubmed-58758852018-04-13 Association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in Chinese working-aged adults: A population-based study He, Ping Luo, Yanan Hu, Xiangyang Gong, Rui Wen, Xu Zheng, Xiaoying PLoS One Research Article Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment, but limited studies focused on the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with hearing loss among adults of working age. This paper aimed to fill this gap among Chinese adults. We obtained data from Ear and Hearing Disorder Survey conducted in four provinces of China in 2014–2015. The survey was based on WHO Ear and Hearing Disorders Survey Protocol and 25,860 adults aged 25 to 59 years were selected in this study. Trained local examiners performed pure tone audiometry to screen people with hearing loss, and those who were screened positively for hearing loss were referred to audiologists to make final diagnosis. SES was measured by occupation, education and income. Results show after adjusting for SES measures and covariates, in urban areas, compared with white-collar workers, blue-collar workers and the unemployed were more likely to have hearing loss, with an odds ratio of 1.2 (95%CI: 1.0, 1.3) and 1.2 (95%CI: 1.0, 1.4), respectively. Compared with people with education of senior high school or above, those with junior high school, primary school and illiteracy had 1.6 (95%CI: 1.4, 1.8), 2.1(95%CI: 1.7, 2.5) and 2.6 (95%CI: 1.9, 3.7) times as likely to have hearing loss, respectively. In rural areas, the unemployed had 1.5 (95%CI: 1.0, 2.3) times the risk of hearing loss compared with white-collar workers, and illiterates had 1.6 (95%CI: 1.6, 2.1) times the risk of hearing loss compared with people with education of senior high school or above, after SES variables and covariates were taken into considerations. Income was not significantly associated with hearing loss in urban and rural areas. In conclusion, SES, in the form of occupation and education, was associated with hearing loss among working-aged population, and further studies are needed to explore the mechanism of such association. Public Library of Science 2018-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5875885/ /pubmed/29596478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195227 Text en © 2018 He et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in Chinese working-aged adults: A population-based study
title_full_unstemmed Association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in Chinese working-aged adults: A population-based study
title_short Association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in Chinese working-aged adults: A population-based study
title_sort association of socioeconomic status with hearing loss in chinese working-aged adults: a population-based study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195227
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