As the golden years approach, hearing loss and dementia often become unwelcome companions. For over a decade, researchers from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging🧑⚕️ have been tracking several thousand people to explore a potential connection between hearing loss and dementia. Their findings revealed that mild hearing loss doubles a person's risk of developing dementia over 10 years, and that severe hearing loss is associated with a fivefold increase in risk.
A recent study by 👨⚕️Dongshan Zhu, Ph.D., a professor at Shandong University in China, suggests that using hearing aids could reduce the risk of developing dementia by 42% in the future. But first, let's examine the data from the study.
