Monaural hearing loss references
 

 

A. Sometimes people write to me about hearing loss on one side only. (Often their doctor has told them that the condition does not exist or cannot have happened to them.)

While monaural hearing loss is not what this site is about, I am happy to post things I come across about this topic. Please don't ask me to do any (unpaid) research for you on this topic; if I've got it, I'll post it. (Thanks.)

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Prevalence of hearing loss
>50 dB (severe loss)
in one ear

 Rates per 1000 children
aged 5-19		 = # of such children
in USA
  African American

Mexican American

Puerto Rican

White non-Hispanic

 1.5

2.0

5.2

1.7

 11,200

8,000

3,500

57,800
 
 

 

 Lee, DJ, Gómez-Marín, O, & Lee, HM (1998) Prevalence of unilateral hearing loss in children. Ear and Hearing. 19:329-332.

The authors cited an earlier article Bess & Thorpe (1986) Ear and Hearing. (7):3-13. (also about children)

  

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