Authors
Lydia M Haile, Kaloyan Kamenov, Paul Svitil Briant, Aislyn U Orji, Jaimie D Steinmetz, Amir Abdoli, Mohammad Abdollahi, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Ashkan Afshin, Haroon Ahmed, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Yonas Akalu, Fares Alahdab, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Hanadi Al Hamad, Liaqat Ali, Vahid Alipour, Rajaa M Al-Raddadi, Hubert Amu, Jalal Arabloo, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Judie Arulappan, Charlie Ashbaugh, Desta Debalkie Atnafu, Atif Amin Baig, Palash Chandra Banik, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Amadou Barrow, Rose G Bender, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nikha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Katrin Burkart, Christopher R Cederroth, Jaykaran Charan, Sonali Gajanan Choudhari, Dinh-Toi Chu, Rosa AS Couto, Amare Belachew Dagnew, Baye Dagnew, Saad MA Dahlawi, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Assefa Desalew, Deepak Dhamnetiya, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, Meghnath Dhimal, Kerrie E Doyle, Bruce B Duncan, Michael Ekholuenetale, Irina Filip, Florian Fischer, Richard Charles Franklin, Abhay Motiramji Gaidhane, Shilpa Gaidhane, Silvano Gallus, Farhad Ghamari, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Ghozali Ghozali, Syed Amir Gilani, Ionela-Roxana Glavan, Mahaveer Golechha, Bárbara Niegia Garcia Goulart, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Samer Hamidi, Billy Randall Hammond, Simon I Hay, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Howard J Hoffman, Kathleen Pillsbury Hopf, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Rabia Hussain, Bing-Fang Hwang, Ivo Iavicoli, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Masao Iwagami, Louis Jacob, Sathish Kumar Jayapal, Ravi Prakash Jha, Jost B Jonas, Rohollah Kalhor, Nawzad Kameran Al-Salihi, Himal Kandel, Ayele Semachew Kasa, Gbenga A Kayode, Rovshan Khalilov, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Soewarta Kosen, Ai Koyanagi, G Anil Kumar, Iván Landires, Savita Lasrado, Stephen S Lim, Xuefeng Liu, Stany W Lobo, Alessandra Lugo, Alaa Makki, Walter Mendoza, Amanual Getnet Mersha, Kebadnew Mulatu Mihretie, Ted R Miller, Sanjeev Misra, Teroj Abdulrahman Mohamed, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Arif Mohammed, Ali H Mokdad, Mohammad Ali Moni, Sandhya Neupane Kandel, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Molly R Nixon, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Virginia Nuñez-Samudio, Bogdan Oancea, Victor Maduabuchi Oguoma, Andrew T Olagunju, Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya, Jacob Olusegun Olusanya, Hans Orru, Mayowa O Owolabi, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Keyvan Pakshir, Shahina Pardhan, Fatemeh Pashazadeh Kan, Maja Pasovic, Shrikant Pawar, Hai Quang Pham, Marina Pinheiro, Akram Pourshams, Navid Rabiee, Mohammad Rabiee, Amir Radfar, Fakher Rahim, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Mosiur Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Juwel Rana, Chythra R Rao
Publication date
2021/3/13
Journal
The Lancet
Volume
397
Issue
10278
Pages
996-1009
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Hearing loss affects access to spoken language, which can affect cognition and development, and can negatively affect social wellbeing. We present updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study on the prevalence of hearing loss in 2019, as well as the condition's associated disability.
Methods
We did systematic reviews of population-representative surveys on hearing loss prevalence from 1990 to 2019. We fitted nested meta-regression models for severity-specific prevalence, accounting for hearing aid coverage, cause, and the presence of tinnitus. We also forecasted the prevalence of hearing loss until 2050.
Findings
An estimated 1·57 billion (95% uncertainty interval 1·51–1·64) people globally had hearing loss in 2019, accounting for one in five people (20·3% [19·5–21·1]). Of these, 403·3 million (357·3–449·5) people had hearing loss that was moderate or higher in severity after …
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LM Haile, K Kamenov, PS Briant, AU Orji, JD Steinmetz… - The Lancet, 2021