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From: Prevalence of severe-profound hearing loss in South Korea: a nationwide population-based study to analyse a 10-year trend (2006–2015)

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The status of severe-profound hearing loss (HL) in South Korea from 2006 to 2015. (A) The total population of South Korea continues to increase from 48.6 million to 51.8 million. (B) Population with severe-profound HL. (C) Sex-wise distribution of the population with severe-profound HL. Males have more severe-profound HL than do females. (D) The percentage of severe-profound HL using a nationwide population-based study to analyse a 10-year trend in hearing impairment. Total HL percentage of 2010 is 0.5%, which is the highest, and it decreases to 0.46% in 2015. The trend of HL percentage shows a gradual decrease from 2010 to 2015. The percentage of severe-profound HL is always higher in the male population than in the female population.

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