Characteristics of Hearing Loss Among Older Adults in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study: A Community-Based Longitudinal Cohort Study With an 8-Year Follow-up.

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"This research was supported by funds (2008-E71001-00, 2009-E71002-00, 2015-P71001-00, 2016-E71003-00, 2017-E71001-00, and 2018-E7101-00) from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and (K2023071, K2212081 and K2210 761) from Korea University grants. In addition, this study was supported by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ICAN (ICT Challenge and Advanced Network of HRD) program (IITP-2022-RS-2022-00156439) supervised by the IITP (Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation). AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Conceptualization: KHO, HC, CS, JC. Methodology: KHO, HC, SKL, CS, JC. Formal analysis: KHO, HC, SKL, CS, JC. Data curation: HC, SKL, CS. Visualization: KHO, HC, CS, JC. Project administration: KHO, HC, CS, JC. Funding acquisition: KHO, HC, CS, JC. Writing–original draft: KHO, HC, CS, JC. Writing–review & editing: KHO, HC, SKL, CS, JC."