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We are all ears to promote developments to avoid Alzheimer’s.
Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and represents more than 100,000 deaths each year, with an amazing study by Nyu Langone Health published last month and found that the risk is up to 35% for men and 48% for women after 55 years.
But there is a note of hope in the midst of all bad news: the promise of new research suggests that the treatment of a super common condition could delay the appearance of dementia for years.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University of Maryland who tracked about 3,000 elderly people with hearing loss discovered that about a third of all dementia could be attributed to deterioration.
Posting his Conclusions In the Jama Ortaritorngology Magazine, the research team said: “This suggests that the treatment of hearing loss can Delay dementia for a large number of adults. “”
The researchers tracked 2,946 adults of 65 years and more than eight years and found that 32% of all dementia cases could be attributed to the diagnosed hearing loss.
For those with a slight hearing loss, the risk of developing dementia was 16.2%. Among those with moderate to severe hearing loss, the risk increased to 16.6%.
The risk was slightly higher for women than for men, 30.8% and 24%, respectively.
A higher number of cases attributed to hearing loss occurred in people of 75 years or older.
Self -loss loss was substantially underestimated and was not associated with an increase in risk of dementia.
Experts do not know if hearing loss directly causes dementia or creates other conditions that increase the risk.
The team is hoping that their findings will inspire changes in the way they detect and treat hearing loss.
“Public health interventions aimed at clinically testing auditory loss may have wide benefits for the prevention of dementia,” they said.
This latest research is based on a lancet’s Landmark 2024 study, which found that almost half of Alzheimer’s cases could be delayed or prevented by approaching 14 risk factors.
In addition to hearing loss, dementia risk factors include lower education, high blood pressure, tobacco consumption, obesity, depression, diabetes, excess alcohol intake, traumatic brain injury, air pollution, social isolation, vision loss, high cholesterol and sedentary lifestyle.
The Lancet study also included 13 recommendations to help reduce the risk of dementia. Among these suggestions were the hearing aids accessible to those who need them and decrease exposure to harmful noise to reduce hearing loss.
Only about 20% of North -Americans who would benefit from a hearing aid to use one. This may be because hearing loss is usually an invisible disease.
Recent research from Michigan University found that millions of North -Americans probably have symptoms of dementia, but there has been no formal diagnosis, partly because patients do not understand their symptoms as normal aging.
There is no care for dementia, but early detection can give time to patients and their caregivers to plan the future.
New research suggests that strength training can help protect themselves from dementia not only by improving cognitive function, but also altering the anatomy of the brain itself.
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