Table 2.
Prevalence (%) of tinnitus by age and birth cohort. The number of observations represented is shown in parentheses. A total of 11,930 observations are shown.*
| Birth Cohort |
Age Group (years) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45-49 | 50-54 | 55-59 | 60-64 | 65-69 | 70-74 | 75-79 | 80-84 | 85-89 | 90-94 | |
| 1905-09 | 5.4 (130) |
9.6 (52) |
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| 1910-14 | 8.1 (236) |
9.2 (119) |
9.4 (53) |
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| 1915-19 | 8.5 (386) |
8.9 (269) |
11.0 (145) |
15.5 (58) |
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| 1920-24 | 9.9 (504) |
12.2 (376) |
13.0 (270) |
11.9 (151) |
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| 1925-29 | 7.9 (495) |
8.3 (421) |
10.9 (320) |
11.2 (241) |
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| 1930-34 | 11.5 (511) |
10.0 (458) |
11.6 (372) |
14.2 (337) |
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| 1935-39 | 7.6 (537) |
8.9 (496) |
11.9 (463) |
14.0 (450) |
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| 1940-44 | 6.5 (583) |
11.0 (544) |
12.9 (606) |
13.7 (539) |
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| 1945-49 | 13.6 (272) |
7.8 (128) |
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| 1950-54 | 9.1 (339) |
17.5 (183) |
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| 1955-59 | 8.9 (393) |
7.7 (234) |
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| 1960-64 | 10.8 (259) |
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*
This table excludes 759 observations where: 1) the cell count was less than 40, or 2) the ages represented in a cell only included one or two years (eg., ages 78-79 in cohort 1910-14, n = 59) and so could result in a biased estimate of the prevalence for that cell.