Trajectories of self-reported hearing and their associations with cognition: evidence from the United Kingdom and United States of America.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the relationships between trajectories of change in self-reported hearing over eight years with subsequent effects on cognition, measured using episodic memory.

Methods

Data were drawn from 5 waves (2008-2016) of the English Longitudinal Study of England (ELSA) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), involving 4,875 individuals aged 50+ at the baseline in ELSA and 6,365 in HRS. The latent growth curve modelling was used to identify trajectories of hearing over eight years, and linear regression models were performed to investigate the relationship between hearing trajectory memberships and episodic memory scores, controlling for confounding factors.

Results

Five trajectories of hearing (stable very good, stable fair, poor t

SUBMITTER: Matthews K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10308503 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature