Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia

R. Lin, Frank; Jeffrey Metter, E.; O’Brien, Richard; M. Resnick, Susan; B. Zonderman, Alan; Ferrucci, Luigi

doi:10.1001/archneurol.2010.362

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Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia

Published in Archives of Neurology • Feb 1, 2011

Authors:

Frank R. Lin

E. Jeffrey Metter

Richard O’Brien

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hearing loss is associated with incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD). DESIGN: Prospective study of 639 individuals who underwent audiometric testing and were dementia free in 1990 to 1994. Hearing loss was defined by a pure-tone average of hearing th...

Subject

Dementia

Hearing loss

Medicine

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