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Figure 4: Age and sex-specific incidence of acute hearing loss from fireworks and signal pistols for the turn of the year 1999/2000 in Germany (A) compared to the population pyramid (status: 31.12.1999, m: male, f: female) (B). The absolute incidence amounted to 9.9 / 10 5 inhabitants. Almost two thirds of the patients (59%) were less than 25 years old although this age-group represents only 27% of the population. The incidence is especially high amongst young male adults with a peak occurring amongst 19 year-old men.