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Figure 2: Percentage of hearing loss according to Röser (%FT, magenta), for pure tones (%PTA, blue), and for speech (%SRT, red) for the better ear (top) and the worse ear (bottom), as a function of age. The black curves give the percentage of hearing-aid adoptions (dashed: all adoptions, dotted: bilateral adoptions only).