ArticleJournal of aging and health2016
Association of Hearing Impairment With Incident Frailty and Falls in Older Adults.
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108 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 204 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between age-related hearing loss and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Association of age-related hearing loss with cognitive impairment and dementia: an umbrella review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Association between hearing loss and frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2021Pooled it
- How gait influences frailty models and health-related outcomes in clinical-based and population-based studies: a systematic review.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Pooled it
- The Association between Hearing Impairment and Postural Stability in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Trends in hearingPooled it
- Effects of hearing intervention on falls in older adults: findings from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Public health · 2025Trial
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- Sensory and motor correlates of frailty: dissociation between frailty phenotype and frailty index.BMC geriatrics · 2022Trial
- A precision medicine tool to understand who responds best to hearing aids in late-life depression.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2022Trial
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of hearing aids to improve mood and cognition in older adults.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Lower bioelectrical phase angle is associated with audiometric hearing loss in middle-aged and older adults.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Age, Auditory Performance, and Quality of Life in Middle-Aged and Older Cochlear Implant Users.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2026Article
- Intrinsic capacity trajectory and hip fracture risk in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a 10-year retrospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association Between Access to Health Information and Frailty in Older Japanese Adults: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Article
- Low flavonoid intake is associated with bilateral hearing impairment in US older adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between presbycusis and cognitive function: contributing factors in older adult.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Article
- Associations Between Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors and Hours of Daily Hearing Aid Use in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.American journal of audiology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal changes in sensory impairments and subsequent falls and fall-related injuries among middle-aged and older adults: a pooled analysis of four prospective cohorts.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Downstream of hearing loss: a population-based multistate analysis of lifetime risk and years lived with hearing loss, dementia and their comorbidity in Finland.Age and ageing · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe aimed to determine whether hearing impairment (HI) in older adults is associated with the development of frailty and falls.
methodLongitudinal analysis of observational data from the Health, Aging and Body Composition study of 2,000 participants aged 70 to 79 was conducted. Hearing was defined by the pure-tone-average of hearing thresholds at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz in the better hearing ear. Frailty was defined as a gait speed of <0.60 m/s and/or inability to rise from a chair without using arms. Falls were assessed annually by self-report.
resultsOlder adults with moderate-or-greater HI had a 63% increased risk of developing frailty (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 1.63, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.26, 2.12]) compared with normal-hearing individuals. Moderate-or-greater HI was significantly associated with a greater annual percent increase in odds of falling over time (9.7%, 95% CI = [7.0, 12.4] compared with normal hearing, 4.4%, 95% CI = [2.6, 6.2]). DISCUSSION: HI is independently associated with the risk of frailty in older adults and with greater odds of falling over time.
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