Moderate alcohol consumption and hearing loss: a protective effect

Article Abstract:

A protective effect from moderate alcohol consumption has been investigated relative to hearing loss using a cross-sectional population-based cohort study of residents of a midwestern community aged 43-84. A modest protective association was found and is in agreement with a small body of evidence that suggests that hearing loss is not an inevitable part of aging.

Prevention, Physiological aspects, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Drinking (Alcoholic beverages), Ear, Presbycusis

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Low prevalence of hearing aid use among older adults with hearing loss: the epidemiology of hearing loss study

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The prevalence of hearing aid use has been studied in adults aged 48-92 with hearing loss with the object of identifying factors associated with those currently using hearing aids. Several assessment methods, including a questionnaire, were used. Few older adults with hearing loss were found to use hearing aids. It would be helpful to use better screening and intervention programs in this segment of the population.

Care and treatment, Planning, Usage, Hearing aids, Epidemiological research, Cross sectional studies

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The effect of visual and hearing impairments on functional status

Article Abstract:

A prospective patient evaluation and retrospective analysis of data study has been carried out in the outpatient geriatric assessment clinic of a university medical center to investigate the effect of hearing and visual impairments on functional status. Impairments of vision and hearing are common in the grail older outpatient population and functional status is lower for sensory impaired subjects. Combined vision/hearing impairments have a greater effect on function than either alone. Combined they influence functional status independent of mental status and comorbid illness.

Psychological aspects, Research, Causes of, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Accidents, Vision disorders, Comorbidity, Activities of daily living

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