Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 24 pp 25944—25959
Global, regional, and national burden of age-related hearing loss from 1990 to 2019
Figure 4. The relationship between ASDR due to occupational noise in 1990, SDI in 2019 and ASDR due to occupational noise in 2019 in age-related hearing loss. (A) ASDR due to occupational noise in 1990; (B) SDI in 2019. The blue line was an adaptive association fitted with adaptive Loess regression based on all data points. Abbreviations: ASDR: age-standardized DALY rates; SDI: socio-demographic index; DALY: disability-adjusted life year.