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. 2023 Jan 10;329(2):171-173.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.20954.

Hearing Loss and Dementia Prevalence in Older Adults in the US

Alison R Huang  1 , Kening Jiang  1 , Frank R Lin  1 , Jennifer A Deal  1 , Nicholas S Reed  1
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Hearing Loss and Dementia Prevalence in Older Adults in the US

Alison R Huang et al. JAMA. .
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Plain language summary

This study assesses the association of audiometric hearing loss and hearing aid use with dementia among community-dwelling older US Medicare beneficiaries.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Lin reported receiving personal fees from Frequency Therapeutics and Apple; being the director of a public health research center funded in part by a philanthropic gift from Cochlear Ltd to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and being a board member of the nonprofit organization Access HEARS. Dr Reed reported being an advisory board member for Neosensory. No other disclosures were reported.

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