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Treating hearing loss is associated with a 24% decrease in risk of early death, study shows (www.cnn.com)

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Your health resolutions for the new year may need to include getting checked for hearing aids.

Wearing hearing aids if you need them may help protect you from early death, according to a new study published Wednesday in The Lancet Healthy Longevity journal.

“What we found was that there was a 24% lower risk of mortality for people who use hearing aids,” said Dr. Janet Choi, an assistant professor of clinical otolaryngology-head and neck surgery with the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and an otolaryngologist with Keck Medicine of USC.

The study looked at the data of 10,000 people — more than 1,800 of whom were identified as having hearing loss — and followed up on their mortality between 1999 and 2012.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm curious what the most common causality might be (if any)

Accidents are easy but I don't think they're that common. I know hearing loss is also associated with stress, so it could be related to all that too

[–] AmbientChaos 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's also related to mental health and capacity as well. I've read before that not being able to communicate can cause a severe decline in both