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Study population selection and incidence of hearing aid acquisition: Beaver Dam, WI, 1993–2005.
Note. EHLS = Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Hearing loss is defined as a pure-tone threshold average at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz of greater than 25 dB hearing level in the better ear.
