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The association between obesity, diet quality and hearing loss in older adults.
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- Association between hearing impairment and cardiometabolic multimorbidity among middle-aged and older adults in China.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association of Life's Essential 8 With Hearing Loss and Tinnitus in U.S. Adults.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2025Article
- Association between hearing loss and insulin resistance as measured by metabolic score for insulin resistance in NHANES 1999 to 2018.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the link between the ZJU index and sarcopenia in adults aged 20-59 using NHANES and machine learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Relationship between TyG-related index and hearing loss in people over 45 s in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the association between secondhand smoke exposure and hearing loss among U.S. nonsmokers.PloS one · 2025Article
- Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Content Validity of the Saudi Sign Language Version of the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The association between ultra-processed food intake and age-related hearing loss: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Associations between dietary indices and hearing status among middle-older aged adults - results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- A machine learning screening model for identifying the risk of high-frequency hearing impairment in a general population.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The association between dietary total antioxidant capacity and hearing loss: results from the Tehran employees Cohort Study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Hearing and Diet (Narrative Review).Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- The Association Between Midlife Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Hearing Loss in Late Life in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Article
- Sex differences in body composition, voluntary wheel running activity, balance performance, and auditory function in CBA/CaJ mice across the lifespan.Hearing research · 2023Article
- Allostatic load and risk of hearing impairment.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2022Article
- Subjective Aging and Objectively Assessed Hearing Function: A Prospective Study of Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- A High-Fat Diet Induces Low-Grade Cochlear Inflammation in CD-1 Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- The influence of metabolic syndrome on age-related hearing loss from the perspective of mitochondrial dysfunction.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundWith the aging population, the prevalence of age-related hearing loss will increase substantially. Prevention requires more knowledge on modifiable risk factors. Obesity and diet quality have been suggested to play a role in the etiology of age-related hearing loss. We aimed to investigate independent associations of body composition and diet quality with age-related hearing loss.
methodsWe performed cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses (follow-up: 4.4 years) in the population-based Rotterdam Study. At baseline (2006-2014), 2,906 participants underwent assessment of body composition, diet, and hearing. Of these 2,906 participants, 636 had hearing assessment at follow-up (2014-2016). Association of body composition and of diet quality with hearing loss were examined using multivariable linear regression models.
resultsCross-sectionally, higher body mass index and fat mass index were associated with increased hearing thresholds. These associations did not remain statistically significant at follow-up. We found no associations between overall diet quality and hearing thresholds.
conclusionsThis study shows that a higher body mass index, and in particular a higher fat mass index, is related to age-related hearing loss. However, whether maintaining a healthy body composition may actually reduce the effects of age-related hearing loss in the aging population requires further longitudinal population-based research.
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