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Association of genetic risk for Alzheimer disease and hearing impairment.
Neurology - 20 Oct 2020
Brenowitz Willa D, Filshtein Teresa J, Yaffe Kristine, Walter Stefan, Ackley Sarah F, Hoffmann Thomas J, Jorgenson Eric, Whitmer Rachel A, Glymour M Maria
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OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) may adversely affect hearing and that hearing loss may adversely affect cognition, we evaluated whether genetic variants that increase AD risk also increase problem hearing and genetic variants that increase hearing impairment risk do not influence cognition. METHODS: UK Biobank participants without dementia ≥56 years of age with Caucasian...
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