{"id":7274,"date":"2023-02-10T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2023-02-09T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T19:45:14","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a545-years-who-use-a-hearing-aid-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/02\/10\/7274\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226545 Years Who Use a Hearing Aid, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7206a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7206a5-F.gif?_=66706\" width=\"518\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, among adults aged \u226545 years, men were more likely to use a hearing aid than were women (9.2% versus 5.5%).<\/p>\n<p>This pattern was found in all age groups: 3.0% of men versus 1.4% of women among those aged 45\u201364 years, 12.3% versus 5.7% among those aged 65\u201374 years, 26.7% versus 13.7% among those aged 75\u201384 years, and 39.5% versus 31.5% among those aged \u226585 years.<\/p>\n<p>Among both men and women, the percentage who use a hearing aid increased with age.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>); NCHS data brief, no. 414, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db414.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db414.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7206a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7206a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, among adults aged \u226545 years, men were more likely to use a hearing aid than were women (9.2% versus 5.5%). This pattern was found in all age groups: 3.0% of men versus 1.4% of women among those aged 45\u201364 years, 12.3% versus 5.7% among those aged 65\u201374 years, 26.7% versus 13.7% among those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62330,63673,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}