Open-angle Glaucoma and Sensorineural Hearing Impairment in the Korean Population

Purpose This study identifies the prevalence and risk factors of sensorineural hearing loss and primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG).Materials and methods Patients aged 19 years or older who had undergone both ophthalmologic examination and audiometry as part of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V (2010–2012) were analyzed. Hearing loss was defined as the pure-tone average over 40 decibels based on the automatic hearing...