Prevalence of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in Adults in the United States

Alan Shan; Bryan K Ward; Adele M Goman; Joshua F Betz; Nicholas S Reed; Dennis S Poe; Carrie L Nieman

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2019.1917

Prevalence of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in Adults in the United States

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Oct 1;145(10):974-975. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2019.1917.

Authors

Alan Shan¹, Bryan K Ward², Adele M Goman¹, Joshua F Betz^{1

3}, Nicholas S Reed^{1

2}, Dennis S Poe⁴, Carrie L Nieman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

Using a representative cross-sectional sample combined with census data, this study calculates prevalence and population estimates to approximate the burden of eustachian tube dysfunction among adults in the United States.

Grant support

K23 AG059900/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States