Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether hearing loss is associated with incident physician-diagnosed dementia in a representative sample.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Participants

Adults aged 50 and older.

Measurements

Cross-sectional associations between self-reported (n = 7,865) and objective hearing measures (n = 6,902) and dementia were examined using multinomial-logistic regression. The longitudinal association between self-reported hearing at Wave 2 (2004/05) and cumulative physician-diagnosed dementia up to Wave 7 (2014/15) was modelled using Cox proportional hazards regression.

Results

After adjustment for potential confounders, in cross-sectional analysis, participants who had self-reported or o

SUBMITTER: Davies HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637915 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature