If living with hearing loss wasn’t already hard enough for the 1 in 6 Australians who currently suffer from it, scientists have recently discovered potential links between hearing loss and the occurrence of cognitive problems, including dementia.
Researchers from the John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore partnered with a handful of other US research institutions to carry out the groundbreaking experiment. Led by Frank Lin, M.D., an otologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, the study followed 639 American adults aged 39 – 90, between the years of 1990 and 1994.