1VA RR&D National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oregon, USA
2OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
3GN Hearing, Ballerup, Denmark
4Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
5Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
6Department of Medical Engineering and Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
7Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
8Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
9Institute for Genome Science, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
10Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
11Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
12Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
13Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
14Phonak Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Received August 29, 2021; accepted August 29, 2022; published online ahead of print November 17, 2022.
All authors contributed equally to the original and revised work. J.R.D. wrote the section on differences in measured hearing loss and if those differences reflect sex-linked biological or gendered-related determinants. B.C. and R.D.F. wrote the section on sex-linked biology and hearing. R.H. and B.S. wrote the section on sex-linked biology in the study of noise-induced hearing loss. P.M. wrote the section on associations between cardiovascular disease and hearing. N.A.P. wrote about the association between hearing loss and cognition. L.E.H. contributed the section on sex-related differences in perceived hearing difficulties while NB wrote the section on sex-related differences in hearing aid use. Authors K.P.F. and G.S. wrote the section on gender and the social context for hearing rehabilitation. K.M.R. wrote the introduction, discussion, and section on hearing loss and gendered exposures to noise from a public health perspective. K.P.F. and J.R.D. were also involved in editing the paper. All authors discussed the implications of the article and commented on the manuscript at all stages.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Address for correspondence: Kelly M. Reavis, VA Portland Health Care System (NCRAR P-5), 3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd, Portland OR 97239, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
