Background on the Audiology Assessment Arm (AAA)
The Audiology Assessment Arm (AAA) will include a subset of NHS II participants who have responded to the Hearing Study Supplemental Questionnaire. These participants will undergo baseline and follow-up clinical hearing tests performed by a certified audiologist at one of 19 nationwide test sites.
Clinical audiometric evaluations from participants in the Audiology Assessment Arm of the CHEARS hearing study will allow us to examine longitudinal changes in hearing thresholds. We will look at changes in threshold sensitivity between baseline and follow-up hearing tests and the relation to several potential risk factors.
We will be focusing on the use of analgesics, dietary factors, alcohol intake, and post-menopausal hormone use as risk factors for hearing loss. Detection of earlier threshold changes will enable us to identify risk factors that are potentially modifiable earlier in the process of hearing decline, possibly elucidating strategies to prevent or delay the onset and/or progression of hearing loss.
If you have been selected to participate in the AAA, please feel free to browse the Audiology Assessment Arm pages about the CHEARS Test Sites, Description of CHEARS Hearing Assessment, and AAA FAQs.
Clinical audiometric evaluations from participants in the Audiology Assessment Arm of the CHEARS hearing study will allow us to examine longitudinal changes in hearing thresholds. We will look at changes in threshold sensitivity between baseline and follow-up hearing tests and the relation to several potential risk factors.
We will be focusing on the use of analgesics, dietary factors, alcohol intake, and post-menopausal hormone use as risk factors for hearing loss. Detection of earlier threshold changes will enable us to identify risk factors that are potentially modifiable earlier in the process of hearing decline, possibly elucidating strategies to prevent or delay the onset and/or progression of hearing loss.
If you have been selected to participate in the AAA, please feel free to browse the Audiology Assessment Arm pages about the CHEARS Test Sites, Description of CHEARS Hearing Assessment, and AAA FAQs.