Study on factors influencing hearing loss of mid-age and elderly person in communities of Taiyuan

Objective To explore the factors inf luencing hearing among mid age and elderly person in the communities of Taiyuan.Methods Seven hundred and seventy-four(324 males,450 females)persons above 40-years old selected with cluster random sampling in four communities were interviewed to collect information on general status,living behavior and disease history.The 0.5,1,2,4KHz hearing thre shold of two ears was adopted as average hearing threshhold.SPSS 11.5 sta tistical softw are was used to perform the single factor analysis and the multi-factor non-condition Logistic regression.Results The result of single factor analysis showed thatgende,rageo,to toxic druguse,typmapanitis history,history of ear injury,history of suffering high fever,education,in come,environment,hypertension had relations with hearing loss(P<0.05 or P<0.01).There sult of multi-factor non-condition Logistic regression showed that age,hypertension,education and income had relation with hearing loss.Elder age and hypertension were the risk factors of hearing loss.The high education and in come were the protecitve factors for hearing loss.Conclusion Age,hypertension,education and income are related to hearing loss.Controlling measures for the factors may reduce the risk of hearing loss among mid age and elderly persons.