Age-Related Hearing Loss and the Factors Determining Continued Usage of Hearing Aids among Elderly Community-Dwelling Residents

• Kunio Mizutari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kunio Mizutari, Yuji Nishiwaki

  * E-mail: tari@mbf.ocn.ne.jp

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Otolaryngology, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takehiro Michikawa,

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Environmental Epidemiology Section, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Hideyuki Saito,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yasuhide Okamoto,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Chieko Enomoto,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toru Takebayashi,

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kaoru Ogawa,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuji Nishiwaki

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kunio Mizutari, Yuji Nishiwaki

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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