ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2017
Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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- Population attributable fractions of a wide range of peripheral diseases for the burden of dementia.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- Association of hearing loss with cognitive function and mental health in Africa: A systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Umbrella review and Delphi study on modifiable factors for dementia risk reduction.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
- Tinnitus-associated cognitive and psychological impairments: a comprehensive review meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of hearing aids on cognitive functions in middle-aged and older adults with hearing loss: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Trajectories of cognitive decline before and after new-onset dual sensory impairment: findings from two longitudinal studies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Sensorimotor Impairment and Incident Dementia in the US Medicare Beneficiaries.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Association between presbycusis and cognitive function: contributing factors in older adult.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Article
- A Phenome-Wide Comorbidity Atlas of Age-Related Hearing Loss, Speech-in-Noise Deficits, and Tinnitus: Distinguishing Causal Signals from Correlation.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Article
- Examining the ability of the interRAI communication collaborative action plan to identify individuals with sensory challenges: A retrospective cohort study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
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- A hypothetical intervention on the use of hearing aids for the risk of dementia in people with hearing loss in UK Biobank.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Results from AD-HEARING (ADherence to and adjustment of HEARING aids in clinical routine care as preventive dementia strategy): a prospective 6-month follow-up study on cognition and psychological well-being.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Hearing Loss and Alzheimer Disease.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Noise exposure, hearing loss and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study based on an occupational health surveillance cohort in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Visual and Auditory Sensory Impairments Differentially Relate with Alzheimer's Pathology.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- What contributes to a decline in cognitive performance among home care clients? Analysis of interRAI data from across Canada.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids, and Cognition.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Digital speech hearing screening using a quick novel mobile hearing impairment assessment: an observational correlation study.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine whether hearing loss is associated with incident physician-diagnosed dementia in a representative sample.
designRetrospective cohort study.
settingEnglish Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
participantsAdults aged 50 and older. MEASUREMENTS: Cross-sectional associations between self-reported (n = 7,865) and objective hearing measures (n = 6,902) and dementia were examined using multinomial-logistic regression. The longitudinal association between self-reported hearing at Wave 2 (2004/05) and cumulative physician-diagnosed dementia up to Wave 7 (2014/15) was modelled using Cox proportional hazards regression.
resultsAfter adjustment for potential confounders, in cross-sectional analysis, participants who had self-reported or objective moderate and poor hearing were more likely to have a dementia diagnosis than those with normal hearing (self-reported: odds ratio OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.1-2.4 moderate hearing; OR = 2.6, 95% CI = 1.7-3.9 poor hearing, objective: OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.0-2.8 moderate hearing; OR = 4.4, 95% CI = 1.9-9.9 poor hearing). Longitudinally, the hazard of developing dementia was 1.4 (95% CI = 1.0-1.9) times as high in individuals who reported moderate hearing and 1.6 (95% CI = 1.1-2.0) times as high in those who reported poor hearing.
conclusionOlder adults with hearing loss are at greater risk of dementia than those with normal hearing. These findings are consistent with the rationale that correction of hearing loss could help delay the onset of dementia, or that hearing loss itself could serve as a risk indicator for cognitive decline.
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