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CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS?

In this study, we examined the association between hearing aids (HAs) and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia; depression or anxiety; drug or alcohol disorders; and falls among adults aged 50 and older with hearing loss (HL). We performed a retrospective study of 176,716 adults (50+) with H...

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Autores principales: Mahmoudi, Elham, Basu, Tanima, Langa, Kenneth, McKee, Michael, zazove, Phillip, Kamdar, Neil
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840691/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1385
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author Mahmoudi, Elham
Basu, Tanima
Langa, Kenneth
McKee, Michael
zazove, Phillip
Kamdar, Neil
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Basu, Tanima
Langa, Kenneth
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description In this study, we examined the association between hearing aids (HAs) and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia; depression or anxiety; drug or alcohol disorders; and falls among adults aged 50 and older with hearing loss (HL). We performed a retrospective study of 176,716 adults (50+) with HL diagnoses using a national, insurance claims data (2008-2016). We used Kaplan Meier curves to examine disease-free survival and Cox regression models to examine the risk-adjusted association between HAs and time to diagnosis of 4 age-related/HL-associated conditions within 3 years of HL diagnosis. Large gender and racial/ethnic differences exist in HAs use. Approximately 11.3% of women vs. 14.5% of men used HAs (95% CI Difference: -0.04, -0.03). About 14.1% of Whites (95% CI: 0.14, 0.14) vs. 9.5% of Blacks (95% CI: 0.09, 0.10) and 7.8% of Hispanics (95% CI: 0.07, 0.08) used HAs. The risk-adjusted hazard ratios of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, depression or anxiety, drug/alcohol disorders, and injurious falls within 3 years after HL diagnosis, for those who used HA vs. those who did not, were lower by 0.82 (95% CI: 0.76-0.88), 0.92 (95% CI: 0.89-0.95), 0.91 (95% CI:0.80-1.04), and 0.86 (95% CI: 0.81-0.92), respectively. Use of HAs is associated with delayed onset of Alzheimer’s, dementia, depression, anxiety, and injurious falls among adults 50 years of age and older with HL. This is important because HL are increasingly common among older adults and early HL diagnosis and use of HAs may prevent or delay physical and mental decline.
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spelling pubmed-68406912019-11-15 CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS? Mahmoudi, Elham Basu, Tanima Langa, Kenneth McKee, Michael zazove, Phillip Kamdar, Neil Innov Aging Session 2010 (Paper) In this study, we examined the association between hearing aids (HAs) and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia; depression or anxiety; drug or alcohol disorders; and falls among adults aged 50 and older with hearing loss (HL). We performed a retrospective study of 176,716 adults (50+) with HL diagnoses using a national, insurance claims data (2008-2016). We used Kaplan Meier curves to examine disease-free survival and Cox regression models to examine the risk-adjusted association between HAs and time to diagnosis of 4 age-related/HL-associated conditions within 3 years of HL diagnosis. Large gender and racial/ethnic differences exist in HAs use. Approximately 11.3% of women vs. 14.5% of men used HAs (95% CI Difference: -0.04, -0.03). About 14.1% of Whites (95% CI: 0.14, 0.14) vs. 9.5% of Blacks (95% CI: 0.09, 0.10) and 7.8% of Hispanics (95% CI: 0.07, 0.08) used HAs. The risk-adjusted hazard ratios of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, depression or anxiety, drug/alcohol disorders, and injurious falls within 3 years after HL diagnosis, for those who used HA vs. those who did not, were lower by 0.82 (95% CI: 0.76-0.88), 0.92 (95% CI: 0.89-0.95), 0.91 (95% CI:0.80-1.04), and 0.86 (95% CI: 0.81-0.92), respectively. Use of HAs is associated with delayed onset of Alzheimer’s, dementia, depression, anxiety, and injurious falls among adults 50 years of age and older with HL. This is important because HL are increasingly common among older adults and early HL diagnosis and use of HAs may prevent or delay physical and mental decline. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6840691/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1385 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS?
title_fullStr CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS?
title_full_unstemmed CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS?
title_short CAN HEARING AIDS DELAY THE ONSET OF ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS AMONG ADULTS WITH HEARING LOSS?
title_sort can hearing aids delay the onset of alzheimer’s and other age-related conditions among adults with hearing loss?
topic Session 2010 (Paper)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840691/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1385
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