Cognitive, health, and sociodemographic predictors of longitudinal decline in hearing acuity among older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 67 A, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 997-1003

  Kiely, Kim M ^a   Gopinath, Bamini ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^b   Luszcz, Mary ^c   Anstey, Kaarin J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age related hearing loss; Cognitive impairment; Presbycusis; The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing; The Blue Mountains Eye Study

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESBYCUSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84865780270     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/gls066     Document Type: Article

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