McKnight’s Senior Living January 5, 2024
(HealthDay News) — Regular hearing aid use may be associated with reduced mortality among adults with hearing loss, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet Healthy Longevity.
Janet S. Choi, MD, from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined 9,885 adults aged 20 years and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2012 and completed audiometry and hearing aid questionnaires (1,863 with hearing loss) to assess the associations of hearing loss and hearing aid use with mortality.
The weighted prevalence of audiometry-measured hearing loss was 14.7%. At a median of 10.4 years of follow-up, the all-cause mortality rate was 13.2%. The researchers found that among adults...
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