Hearing aids may protect against a higher risk of dementia associated with hearingloss, study suggests thelancet TheLancet TheLancet
could be a minimally invasive, cost-effective treatment to mitigate the potential impact of hearing loss on dementia," says corresponding author Prof. Dongshan Zhu, Shandong University .
Around three-quarters of the participants had no hearing loss, and the remaining one-quarter had some level of hearing loss. Among those with hearing loss, 11.7% used hearing aids. This is approximately equivalent to a 1.7% risk of dementia in people with hearing loss who are not using hearing aids, compared to 1.2% among those without hearing loss or who are experiencing hearing loss but using hearing aids.
"The underlying pathways which may link hearing aid use and reduced dementia risk are unclear. Further research is needed to establish aand the presence of underlying pathways," says study author Dr. Fan Jiang of Shandong University.
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