Triple difficulties in Japanese women with hearing loss: marriage, smoking, and mental health issues.

OBJECTIVE:To examine the consequences of early-onset hearing loss on several social and health measures and any related gender differences in Japanese populations. METHODS:Data from a 2007 nationally representative cross-sectional household survey of 136,849 men and women aged 20 to 39 years were ob...

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Main Authors: Yoko Kobayashi, Nanako Tamiya, Yoko Moriyama, Akihiro Nishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4317178?pdf=render