Associations of sleep characteristics in late midlife with late-life hearing loss in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities-Sleep Heart Health Study (ARIC-SHHS).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigated associations of late midlife sleep characteristics with late-life hearing, which adds to the existing cross-sectional evidence and is novel in examining polysomnographic sleep measures and central auditory processing.

Methods

A subset of Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study participants underwent sleep assessment in the Sleep Heart Health Study in 1996-1998 and hearing assessment in 2016-2017. Peripheral hearing thresholds (0.5-4kHz) assessed by pure-tone audiometry were averaged to calculate speech-frequency pure-tone average in better-hearing ear (higher pure-tone average=worse hearing). Central auditory processing was measured by the Quick Speech-in-Noise Test (lower score=worse performance). Sleep was measured using polysomnography

SUBMITTER: Jiang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10592398 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature