Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958.

ABSTRACT: Previous cross-sectional findings indicate that hearing and cognitive abilities are positively correlated in childhood, adulthood, and older age. We used an unusually valuable longitudinal dataset from a single-year birth cohort study, the National Child Development Study 1958, to test how hearing and cognitive abilities relate to one another across the life course from childhood to middle age. Cognitive ability was assessed with a single test of general cognitive ability at age 11 years and again with multiple tests at age 50. Hearing ability was assessed, using a pure tone audiogram, in childhood at ages 11 and 16 and again at age 44. Associations between childhood and middle-age hearing and cognitive abilities were investigated using structural equation modelling. We found that higher c

SUBMITTER: Okely JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8581793 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature