ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2021
Hearing impairment and missing cognitive test scores in a population-based study of older adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities neurocognitive study.
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- Association between hearing loss and cognitive decline in the elderly: A systematic review with meta-analysis study.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Hearing Loss Among Older Adults: Epidemiology, Disparities, and Gaps in Research.Annual review of public health · 2026Review
- Hearing impairment and cognitive decline: Alternative explanations to causality.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Article
- Hearing loss and incident dementia over 8 years in Black and White older adults: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Article
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- Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Is occupational noise associated with arthritis? Cross-sectional evidence from US population.BMC public health · 2024Article
- ENHANCE: a comparative prospective longitudinal study of cognitive outcomes after 3 years of hearing aid use in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Assessment of hearing and vision impairment in cohort studies collecting cognitive data in older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2022Article
- Considering hearing loss as a modifiable risk factor for dementia.Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Relationship between occupational noise exposure and hypertension: Cross-sectional evidence from real-world.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Prediction of the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Erlong Zuoci Treatment of Age-Related Hearing Loss via Network Pharmacology-Based Analyses Combined with Experimental Validation.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionHearing impairment is associated with poor cognitive test performance in older adults. However, hearing's impact on cognitive test completion is poorly described, and missing cognitive data due to hearing impairment could misestimate the association.
methodsWe investigated if hearing impairment is associated with missing neurocognitive scores in 3678 adults (72-94 years). Hearing impairment was defined by the better-ear pure tone average of speech-frequency thresholds (0.5-4 kHz) >25 decibels.
resultsHearing impairment was associated with greater missingness on all auditory-only tests, including Logical Memory (prevalence ratio [PR] comparing ≥ moderate impairment vs normal hearing:1.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.26, 2.25) and Digits Backwards (PR 1.62; 95% CI 1.21, 2.17); and two non-auditory tests, Boston Naming (PR 1.61; 95% CI 1.21, 2.17) and Trail Making B (PR 1.55; 95% CI 1.29, 1.86). Models that imputed missing cognitive scores showed the strongest hearing-cognition associations. DISCUSSION: Older adults with hearing impairment are less likely to complete cognitive testing, thereby underestimating the hearing impairment-cognition relationship.
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