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Newest in this topic

  1. Interacting Role of Social Determinants of Health and Hearing Loss on Cognitive Decline: An ACTIVE Longitudinal Study 2026-10-20
  2. Auditory brainstem response latencies, but not amplitudes, are associated with gray matter volumes across the human auditory pathway in older adults 2026-08-26
  3. Relationships Among Hearing, Auditory Processing, and Cognition: A Study of Older Adults 2026-08-07

Studies

118 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1980 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 9
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 5
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 5
  • The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 5
  • bioRxiv 5

71 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Hearing Impairment and Cognition in an Aging World

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO 2021-05-18 Risk factors

    With the increasing number of older adults around the world, the overall number of dementia cases is expected to rise dramatically in the next 40 years.

  2. Dual Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Impairment in the Korean Longitudinal Elderly Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2021-04-07 Risk factors

    At baseline, DSI was significantly associated with increased dementia prevalence compared to normal sensory function (odds ratio [OR] 2.17, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.17-4.02), but SSI was not (OR 1.27, 95% CI 0.66-2.41).

  3. Age-Related Hearing Loss, Late-Life Depression, and Risk for Incident Dementia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021-04-01 Risk factors

    Both HL and depression are independent risk factors for eventual conversion to dementia.

  4. Do self-reported hearing and visual impairments predict longitudinal dementia in older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-03-18 Risk factors

    HI and VI at baseline were reported by 30.3% and 16.6% of individuals, respectively.

  5. Hearing and dementia: from ears to brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2021-03-01 Risk factors

    The association between hearing impairment and dementia has emerged as a major public health challenge, with significant opportunities for earlier diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

  6. Prevalence of Concurrent Functional Vision and Hearing Impairment and Association With Dementia in Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-03-01 Risk factors

    In this cohort study of US Medicare beneficiaries, dual sensory impairment was prevalent in older adults and associated with increased risk of dementia.

  7. Unilateral Cochlear Implants for Severe, Profound, or Moderate Sloping to Profound Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Consensus Statements

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2020-10-01 Risk factors

    These 20 consensus statements on the use of unilateral cochlear implantation in adults with SNHL were relevant to the following 7 key areas of interest: level of awareness of cochlear implantation (1 consensus statement); best practice clinical pathway from diagnosis to surgery (3 consensus statements); best practice guidelines for surgery (2 consensus statements); clinical effectiveness of cochlear implantation (4 consensus statements); factors associated with postimplantation outcomes (4 consensus statements); association between hearing loss and depression, cognition, and dementia (5 consensus statements); and cost implications of cochlear implantation (1 consensus statement).

  8. Exploring the genetic relationship between hearing impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-25 Genetics

    We found a significant genetic overlap between hearing impairment and AD and a polygenic risk score for AD was able to significantly predict hearing loss in an independent cohort.

  9. Association of genetic risk for Alzheimer disease and hearing impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2020-09-02 Risk factors

    Poor speech-in-noise hearing (>-5.5-dB speech reception threshold; prevalence 14%) was associated with lower cognitive scores (ß = -1.28; 95% confidence interval [CI] -1.54 to -1.03).

  10. Does hearing loss lead to dementia? A review of the literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Hearing research 2020-07-30 Risk factors

    Recent studies have revealed a correlation between aging-related hearing loss and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer Disease.

  11. MicroRNAs Related to Cognitive Impairment After Hearing Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology 2020-07-11 Risk factors

    The deaf group showed considerably lower scores on the OPT, OLT, and Y-maze test than the control group.

  12. The Association Between Early Age-Related Hearing Loss and Brain β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Laryngoscope 2020-07-09 Risk factors

    The mean age ± standard deviation was 64.6 ± 3.5 years.

  13. Dual sensory impairment in older adults and risk of dementia from the GEM Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-07-07 Risk factors

    DSI was significantly associated with higher risk of all-cause dementia (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.86; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25-2.76) and Alzheimer's disease (HR = 2.12; 95% CI = 1.34-3.36).

  14. [Hearing and cognition: neurocognitive test batteries in otorhinolaryngology]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. HNO 2020-03 Risk factors

    A multitude of different neurocognitive screening tests and detailed test batteries are available, particularly in the field of dementia.

  15. Audiometric Age-Related Hearing Loss and Cognition in the Hispanic Community Health Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2020-02-14 Risk factors

    The mean age was 58.4 years (SD = 6.2). A 20-dB (equivalent to a one-category worsening) increase in HL was associated with a -1.53 (95% CI, -2.11, -0.94) raw score point difference in the DSST, adjusting for demographics, hearing aid use, and cardiovascular disease.

  16. Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Decline in Older, Community-Dwelling Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2020-02-14 Risk factors

    Of 1,164 participants (mean age 73.5 years, 64% women), 580 (49.8%) had mild hearing impairment and 196 (16.8%) had moderate/severe hearing impairment.

  17. Hearing and Cognitive Impairments Increase the Risk of Long-term Care Admissions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Innovation in aging 2020-01-01 Risk factors

    In this sample, 12.7% of clients were admitted to LTC, with a mean time to admission of 49.6 months (SE = 0.20).

  18. Neuropathological Findings of Dementia Associated With Subjective Hearing Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 2019-10 Risk factors

    Two-hundred and seventy-three subjects were included, 189 normal hearing and 84 subjective hearing loss subjects.

  19. Gender Differences in the Association Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2019-09-11 Risk factors

    Moderate/severe hearing loss was significantly associated with lower composite z score in males (β = -28.67, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] = -57.13 to -0.20) but not in females (β = -8.82, 95% CI = -36.61 to 18.96).

  20. Hearing loss and Alzheimer's disease: A Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The international tinnitus journal 2019-09-04 Risk factors

    Many studies have focused on the relationship between hearing loss and Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  21. Mobile applications to detect hearing impairment: opportunities and challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2019-09-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Hearing loss affects close to 1.3 billion people and is a growing global health concern as the fourth leading contributor to years lived with disability. 1 The global economic cost associated with hearing loss is estimated at 750 billion United States dollars (US$) annually.2 However, hearing loss has limited public health support, especially in low-and middle-income countries, where incidence is high and resources often scarce and unequally distributed.

  22. Association of Hearing Loss With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-07-03 Risk factors

    In this study, hearing loss was positively associated with a risk of dementia, especially in patients aged 45 to 64 years.

  23. Peripheral and central hearing impairment and their relationship with cognition: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of audiology 2019-04-02 Risk factors

    In addition to the well-documented relationship between peripheral hearing loss and cognition highlighted in previous comprehensive reviews, there is also some evidence to suggest that there is a relationship between central hearing impairment and cognition.

  24. Hearing interventions to prevent dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. HNO 2019-03 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is a marker of risk for cognitive decline and dementia.

  25. [Presbyacusis]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Vestnik otorinolaringologii 2019 Risk factors

    In the world, the spread of hearing loss due to age is an important socio-medical problem.

  26. Interplay between Nutrition and Hearing Loss: State of Art

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Nutrients 2018-12-24 Risk factors

    Hearing loss has been recently ranked as the fifth leading cause of years lived with disability, ahead of many other chronic diseases such as diabetes, dementia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  27. Sensorial frailty: age-related hearing loss and the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in later life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Therapeutic advances in chronic disease 2018-11-09 Risk factors

    The peripheral hearing alterations and central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) associated with age-related hearing loss (ARHL), may impact cognitive disorders in older age.

  28. Hearing impairment and the risk of neurodegenerative dementia: A longitudinal follow-up study using a national sample cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2018-10-15 Risk factors

    This study aimed to explore the risk of dementia in a middle- and older-aged population with severe or profound hearing impairments.

  29. Hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Design and methods of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-10-05 Risk factors

    When completed in 2022, Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders study should provide definitive evidence of the effect of hearing treatment versus education control on cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults with mild-to-moderate hearing impairment.

  30. Association of Cognition and Age-Related Hearing Impairment in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2018-10-01 Risk factors

    Although hearing loss and cognition are linked, untreated hearing loss drives the association.

  31. Interventions for hearing and vision impairment to improve outcomes for people with dementia: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2018-09-24 Risk factors

    ABSTRACTBackground:Age-related hearing and vision problems are common among people with dementia and are associated with poorer function, reduced quality of life and increased caregiver burden.

  32. Death, Depression, Disability, and Dementia Associated With Self-reported Hearing Problems: A 25-Year Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2018-09-01 Risk factors

    Our study confirms the strong link between hearing status and the risk of disability, dementia, and depression.

  33. Visual and hearing impairments are associated with cognitive decline in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Age and ageing 2018-07-01 Risk factors

    This study aims to determine whether single and dual sensory impairment (hearing and/or vision) are independently associated with cognitive decline among older adults and to describe cognitive trajectories according to their impairment pattern.

  34. Age-Related Hearing Loss: Innovations in Hearing Augmentation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Otolaryngologic clinics of North America 2018-05-04 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss is a multifactorial condition that affects more than one-third of the aging population.

  35. Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-04-10 Risk factors

    Hearing aids may have a mitigating effect on trajectories of cognitive decline in later life.

  36. Impact of Aging on the Auditory System and Related Cognitive Functions: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2018-03-05 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), presbycusis, is a chronic health condition that affects approximately one-third of the world's population.

  37. Hearing Loss in the Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2018-02-14 Risk factors

    Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss (ARHL), is the result of physiologic and pathologic changes associated with advancing age.

  38. Association Between Sensory Impairment and Dementia in Older Adults: Evidence from China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-01-10 Risk factors

    Sensory impairments are associated with greater risk of dementia in Chinese older adults.

  39. Hearing aids: indications, technology, adaptation, and quality control

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. GMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery 2017-12-18 Risk factors

    Hearing loss can be caused by a number of different pathological conditions.

  40. Chronic inflammation - inflammaging - in the ageing cochlea: A novel target for future presbycusis therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2017-10-07 Risk factors

    Chronic, low-grade inflammation, or inflammaging, is a crucial contributor to various age-related pathologies and natural processes in aging tissue, including the nervous system.

  41. Hearing Impairment, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2017-09-01 Risk factors

    The meta-analysis showed that hearing impairment is associated with a higher risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia among older adults.

  42. Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017-07-22 Risk factors

    Older adults with hearing loss are at greater risk of dementia than those with normal hearing.

  43. A randomized feasibility pilot trial of hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Results from the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-06-21 Risk factors

    ACHIEVE-P sets the stage for the full-scale ACHIEVE trial (N = 850, recruitment beginning November 2017), the first randomized trial to determine efficacy of a best practices hearing (vs. successful aging) intervention on reducing cognitive decline in older adults with HL.

  44. Hearing Loss and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Findings from the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2017-04-19 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is independently associated with prevalent dementia and incident MCI or dementia.

  45. Observed Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia in a Multiethnic Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017-03-21 Risk factors

    OHL was associated with greater risk of incident dementia in a multiethnic cohort.

  46. Reduced acoustic startle response and peripheral hearing loss in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Genes, brain, and behavior 2017-03-08 Risk factors

    Hearing dysfunction has been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in humans, but there is little data on the auditory function of mouse models of AD.

  47. Hearing impairment and risk of Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2016-11-28 Risk factors

    Observational studies suggested an association between hearing impairment and cognitive disorders.

  48. Age-related hearing loss: prevention of threshold declines, cell loss and apoptosis in spiral ganglion neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Aging 2016-09-01 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) -presbycusis - is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease and number one communication disorder of our aged population; and affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

  49. Hearing Impairment Affects Dementia Incidence. An Analysis Based on Longitudinal Health Claims Data in Germany

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. PloS one 2016-07-08 Digital health tools

    Recent research has revealed an association between hearing impairment and dementia.

  50. Hearing and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2016-07-02 Risk factors

    Hearing deficits associated with cognitive impairment have attracted much recent interest, motivated by emerging evidence that impaired hearing is a risk factor for cognitive decline.

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