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ArticleScientific reports2025

Race- and sex-specific differences in the risk of incident hearing loss and associated factors.

Lauren K Dillard, Lois J Matthews, Judy R Dubno

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Self-Reported Type 2 Diabetes and the Rate of Hearing Decline in Aging.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026
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3 authors.

Lauren K DillardDepartment of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Ave, MSC 550, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA. dillalau@musc.edu.
Lois J MatthewsDepartment of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Ave, MSC 550, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA.
Judy R DubnoDepartment of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Ave, MSC 550, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA.

Funding

SPEECH UNDERSTANDING IN REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTSP50DC000422 · NIDCD · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI DUBNO, JUDY R · 1989 to 2025
$45.3M
South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR)UL1TR001450 · NCATS · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI BRADY, KATHLEEN T., FLUME, PATRICK A · 2015 to 2024
$41.1M
Interdisciplinary Research Training in Otolaryngology and Communication SciencesT32DC014435 · NIDCD · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI DUBNO, JUDY R · 2015 to 2024
$2.9M
Early intervention as a determinant of hearing aid benefit for age-related hearing loss: Results from longitudinal cohort studiesF32DC021078 · NIDCD · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI DILLARD, LAUREN KAY · 2023 to 2024
$148k
RENOVATION TO SUPPORT SENSORY NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCHC06RR014516 · NCRR · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI RAYMOND, JOHN R · 1999 to 1999
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NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001450NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR014516NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR14516NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC021078NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC000422NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC014435
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study reports the incidence of hearing loss and associated factors, and differences across sex and race groups. Participants were from a longitudinal community-based cohort study. Hearing loss was defined as a pure-tone average of thresholds at frequencies 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 kHz > 25 dB HL in the worse ear. We used Cox proportional hazards regression models to determine demographic and health-related factors associated with incident hearing loss, in the entire sample and across sex (male/female) and race (White/Black) groups, separately. This study included 754 participants without hearing loss at baseline (mean age 56.7 [SD 16.2] years; 67.6% female; 24.2% racial Minority [22.9% Black]), contributing 3,771 person years (PY). The incidence rate of hearing loss was 44.8 (95% CI 38.5, 52.1) per 1000 PY, and incidence increased with age. In age-adjusted models, older age (unadjusted), male sex, noise exposure, and > 5 to 15 smoking pack years were associated with incident hearing loss; associations with noise exposure and smoking pack years did not remain in age-sex adjusted models. Some factors associated with incident hearing loss varied across sex and race groups. Interventions to prevent or manage hearing loss, which is a common public health concern, may vary across demographic groups.

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Hearing LossRacial GroupsAdultAgedFemaleHumansIncidenceLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedProportional Hazards ModelsRisk FactorsSex FactorsAgingCohort studyDemographic differencesEpidemiologyHearing lossIncidence

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PMID40253452
PMCPMC12009290

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