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Gender Differences in the Association Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias · 7 authors, 2 centres

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This cross-sectional study of 655 older adults found that moderate/severe hearing loss was significantly associated with lower global cognitive scores in males, but not in females.

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For individual cognitive tests, moderate/severe hearing loss was negatively associated with the Animal Fluency Test score in both genders.

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PMC10623990

Gender Differences in the Association Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

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Objective: This study aimed to determine the association between hearing loss and cognitive function by gender in a nationally representative sample of older adults. Methods: We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010-2011) for 655 participants aged 60 to 69 years. The cognitive functioning component consisted of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s disease, the Animal Fluency Test, and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test. We created a composite z score to represent global cognitive function. Regression models were used to examine the association between hearing loss and cognitive function. Results: 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). Conclusion: There were gender differences in the association between hearing loss and cognitive function. Future studies need to investigate these gender-specific associations.

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Bowen Huang, Guilan Cao, Yanran Duan et al.. Gender Differences in the Association Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317519871167

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Bowen Huang, Guilan Cao, Yanran Duan, Siyu Yan, Mingming Yan, Ping Yin, Hongwei Jiang

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
2Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China