Hearing Loss and Dementia Prevalence in Older Adults in the US

Alison R Huang; Kening Jiang; Frank R Lin; Jennifer A Deal; Nicholas S Reed

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.20954

Hearing Loss and Dementia Prevalence in Older Adults in the US

JAMA. 2023 Jan 10;329(2):171-173. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.20954.

Authors

Alison R Huang¹, Kening Jiang¹, Frank R Lin¹, Jennifer A Deal¹, Nicholas S Reed¹

Affiliation

¹ Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This study assesses the association of audiometric hearing loss and hearing aid use with dementia among community-dwelling older US Medicare beneficiaries.

MeSH terms

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Deafness / epidemiology
Dementia* / epidemiology
Hearing Loss* / epidemiology
Humans
Prevalence
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

P30 AG066587/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States