TIATrends in Hearing2331-2165SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA10.1177/233121651988761410.1177_2331216519887614PerspectiveHearing in Adults: A Digital Reprint of the Main Report From the MRC National Study of Hearinghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7182-9209AkeroydMichael A.1BrowningGeorge G.2DavisAdrian C.34HaggardMark P.5Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UKHearing Sciences (Scottish Section), Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Glasgow, UKImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UKAD Cave Solutions Limited, London, UKDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UKMichael A. Akeroyd, Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Email: michael.akeroyd@nottingham.ac.uk2012201923233121651988761488201931020196102019© The Author(s) 20192019SAGE Publicationshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

The 1011-page book, Hearing in Adults, published in 1995, contains the fullest report of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council National Study of Hearing. It was designed to determine the prevalence and distribution in Great Britain of audiometrically measured hearing loss as a function of age, gender, occupation, and noise exposure. The study’s size, quality, and breadth made it unique when it was done in the 1980s. These qualities remain, and its data are still the primary U.K. source for the prevalence of auditory problems. However, only 550 copies were printed, and the book is essentially unobtainable today. We describe here a fully searchable, open-access, digital (PDF) “reprinting” of Hearing in Adults, summarizing the study’s design and the book’s contents, together with a brief commentary in the light of subsequent developments.

audiologyprevalence, hearing lossMedical Research Councilhttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100000265MC_UP_1206/1MR/S0028982/1cover-dateJanuary-December 2019typesetterts2