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118 studies tagged hearing, dated 1980-10-01 to 2026-10-20. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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. A review of new insights on the association between hearing loss and cognitive decline in ageing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale 2016-06-01 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) has a multifactorial pathogenesis and it is an inevitable hearing impairment associated with reduction of communicative skills related to ageing.

  2. The Health and Well-Being of Older Adults with Dual Sensory Impairment (DSI) in Four Countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. PloS one 2016-05-05 Risk factors

    Raising awareness of this unique disability is imperative to insure that individuals receive the necessary rehabilitation and supportive services to improve their level of independence and quality of life.

  3. The Effect of Decreased Audibility on MMSE Performance: A Measure Commonly Used for Diagnosing Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 2016-04-01 Risk factors

    Apparent cognitive deficits based on MMSE scores obtained in test conditions in which audibility is reduced could result in incorrectly identified cognitive loss if clinicians are not alert to hearing loss when patients are evaluated.

  4. Noise induced hearing loss impairs spatial learning/memory and hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-02-04 Risk factors

    Hearing loss has been associated with cognitive decline in the elderly and is considered to be an independent risk factor for dementia.

  5. Olfactory identification deficits and increased mortality in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2015-07-03 Risk factors

    Impaired odor identification, particularly in the anosmic range, is associated with increased mortality in older adults even after controlling for dementia and medical comorbidity.

  6. [Hearing impairment and dementia]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2014-09-13 Risk factors

    The World Health Organization (WHO) burden of disease study identified dementia and hearing problems as leading causes of loss of quality of life in the industrial world.

  7. Long-term systemic inflammation and cognitive impairment in a population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014-08-14 Risk factors

    With data collected over 20 years, this study demonstrated greater likelihood of cognitive impairment in individuals with repeated high or increasing IL-6.

  8. Association of hearing impairment and mortality in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2014-07-14 Risk factors

    HI in older adults is associated with increased mortality, independent of demographics and cardiovascular risk factors.

  9. Apolipoprotein E Allele and Hearing Thresholds in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2014-06-06 Risk factors

    Compared to participants with no APOE-E4 alleles, participants with 1 allele had better thresholds at 4.0 kHz (β = -2.72 dB, P = .013) and 8.0 kHz (β = -3.05 kHz, P = .006), and participants with 2 alleles had better hearing thresholds at 1.0 kHz (β = -8.56 dB, P = .021).

  10. The prevalence of peripheral and central hearing impairment and its relation to cognition in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Audiology & neuro-otology 2014-01-01 Risk factors

    Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and dementia are two highly prevalent conditions in the adult population.

  11. Hearing loss is negatively related to episodic and semantic long-term memory but not to short-term memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2010-09-30 Risk factors

    The overall relationships between hearing loss and memory systems were predicted by the ease of language understanding model (J. Rönnberg, 2003), but the exact mechanisms of episodic memory decline in hearing aid users (i.e., mismatch/disuse, attentional resources, or information degradation) remain open for further experiments.

  12. Efficacy of Music Therapy in the Treatment of Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 2008-04-01 Clinical safety

    NPI total score significantly decreased in the experimental group at 8th, 16th, and 20th weeks (interaction time x group: F3,165=5.06, P=0.002).

  13. The effects of improving hearing in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Age and ageing 2003-03-01 Risk factors

    Measures of cognition and psychiatric symptoms, activities of daily living, and burden on carers were made over 6 months.

  14. Taste and smell losses in normal aging and disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JAMA 1997-10-01 Risk factors

    Losses of taste and smell are common in the elderly and result from normal aging, certain disease states (especially Alzheimer disease), medications, surgical interventions, and environmental exposure.

  15. Relationship of hearing impairment to dementia and cognitive dysfunction in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. JAMA 1989-04-01 Risk factors

    We conducted a case-control study in 100 cases who had Alzheimer's-type dementia and 100 age-, sex-, and education-matched, nondemented controls to evaluate the hypothesis that hearing impairment contributes to cognitive dysfunction in older adults.

  16. Hearing impairment as a predictor of cognitive decline in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1988-11-01 Risk factors

    Thirty-eight patients with dementia of various etiologies were studied longitudinally to determine the change in cognition over time in subjects with and without hearing impairment.

  17. Hearing impairment and cognitive decline in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1986-03-01 Risk factors

    Hearing impairment has been hypothesized as contributing to symptoms of dementia.

  18. Hearing impairment and mental state in the elderly living at home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. British medical journal 1980-10-01 Risk factors

    Altogether 153 (60%) out of a sample of 253 people aged 70 years and over living in their own homes were found to have impaired hearing when tested by pure-tone audiometry.

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