McKnight's January 4, 2024
A new report links wearing hearing aids to a lower risk of dying. The study, published Wednesday in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that adults who regularly wore their hearing aids had a 24% lower risk for dying compared to those who didn’t wear the devices.
“We found that adults with hearing loss who regularly used hearing aids had a 24% lower risk of mortality than those who never wore them,” Janet Choi, MD, an otolaryngologist at Keck Medicine and lead researcher said in a statement. “These results are exciting because they suggest that hearing aids may play a protective role in people’s health and prevent early death.”
Data came from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999...
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