Figure 1.

Prevalence of self-reported hearing difficulty to measured hearing difficulty in adults from 40 years to 85+ years of age. Figure adapted from Bainbridge & Wallhagen, 2014. Self-report data were taken from the National Health Interview Survey, and measured audiometric data are pure-tone audiometric thresholds averaged at 0.5 kHz, 1.0 kHz, 2.0 kHz, and 4.0 kHz gathered from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Reproduced with permission of Annual Review of Public Health, Volume © by Annual Reviews, http://www.annualreviews.org