Figure 4.
Annual cases for conditions that make up the core US newborn screening panel [30], along with estimates of annual US cases of congenital CMV-related disabilities. There is some overlap among the children with hearing loss and the children with congenital CMV-related disabilities. However, children in these two groups may not be strictly comparable because newborn hearing screening typically uses >40 dB as a cutoff for hearing loss, whereas the congenital CMV literature sometimes uses a cutoff as low as >20 dB