Dementia Tied to Hearing Loss

January 12, 2023

(MedPage Today) – Moderate-to-severe hearing loss was linked with a higher prevalence of dementia, a cross-sectional study of Medicare beneficiaries showed. Among 2,413 older adults in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), dementia prevalence among people with moderate-to-severe hearing loss was higher than it was among people with normal hearing (prevalence ratio 1.61, 95% CI 1.09-2.38), reported Nicholas Reed, AuD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues. (Read More)