MedPage Today (8/7, George) reported, “Hearing impairment was linked to neuropathological hallmarks of dementia,” investigators concluded after assessing data from “2,755 autopsied participants age 55 and older from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center…database.” The study revealed that “in older adults who were cognitively normal, impaired hearing was associated with tau neurofibrillary degeneration,” while “in people with dementia, hearing loss was tied to microinfarcts but not to tau tangles.” The findings were published online in Neurology.
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