{"id":6376,"date":"2022-03-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-have-difficulty-hearing-even-when-using-a-hearing-aid-by-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/03\/25\/6376\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Have Difficulty Hearing Even When Using a Hearing Aid,\u00a0by Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7112a5-F.gif?_=40031\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"327\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 12.3% of adults aged \u226518 years had some difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid and 1.5% had a lot of difficulty or could not hear at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of adults who had some difficulty hearing increased with age, from 6.0% among those aged 18\u201344 years, to 12.6% among those aged 45\u201364 years, and to 25.0% among those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of adults who had a lot of difficulty hearing or were unable to hear at all also increased with age, from 0.5% among those aged 18\u201344 years, to 1.6% among those aged 45\u201364 years, and to 3.7% among those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7112a5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7112a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 12.3% of adults aged \u226518 years had some difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid and 1.5% had a lot of difficulty or could not hear at all. The percentage of adults who had some difficulty hearing increased with age, from 6.0% among those aged 18\u201344 years, to 12.6% among those aged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62330,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}