Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 129-135 , February 2010

Risk Factors and Impacts of Incident Tinnitus in Older Adults

  • Bamini Gopinath, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
    • Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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  • Catherine M. McMahon, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Language Sciences, Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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  • Elena Rochtchina, MApplStat

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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  • Michael J. Karpa, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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  • Paul Mitchell, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Professor Paul Mitchell, Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW, Australia, 2145. Tel.: 61 2 9845 7960; Fax: 61 2 9845 8345.

Received 22 June 2009 ,Accepted 5 September 2009.

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 The Blue Mountains Eye Study was supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (Grants 974159, 991407, 211069, and 262120).

PII: S1047-2797(09)00306-8

doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.09.002

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 129-135 , February 2010

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