In a 2009 survey of 46,000 U.S. households, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) determined that over the past generation hearing loss grew at an alarming 160 percent of the U.S. population growth.
A recently completed study by Johns Hopkins University – published on November 14, 2011 in the Archives of Internal Medicine – now confirms that 1 in 5 Americans have hearing loss in at least one ear.
More than 32 million Americans have significant hearing loss, yet only a fraction of that number have ever had their hearing tested by a Board Certified Audiologist.