Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia
Institute on Aging · Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center · +3 more institutions
Abstract
To determine whether hearing loss is associated with incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD).
Prospective study of 639 individuals who underwent audiometric testing and were dementia free in 1990 to 1994. Hearing loss was defined by a pure-tone average of hearing thresholds at 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz in the better-hearing ear (normal, 70 dB [n = 6]). Diagnosis of incident dementia was made by consensus diagnostic conference. Cox proportional hazards models were used to model time to incident dementia according to severity of hearing loss and were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, diabetes mellitus, smoking, and hypertension.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 18.46
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 54
Authors
6- FRFrank R. LinCorresponding
Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, National Institute on Aging
- EJE. Jeffrey Metter
National Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins University, Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- RORichard O’Brien
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, Institute on Aging, National Institute on Aging
- SMSusan M. Resnick
Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, National Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins University
- ABAlan B. Zonderman
Institute on Aging, National Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Topics & keywords
- Dementia
- Hearing loss
- Medicine
- Hazard ratio
- Confidence interval
- Proportional hazards model
- Audiology
- Prospective cohort study
- Good health and well-being