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Speech-in-Noise Hearing Impairment and Incident Dementia: A UK Biobank Cohort Study Across Polygenic, APOE ε4, and Familial Risk Strata.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders - 1 Jan 2026
Peng Cong, Gong Guoqing, Chen Zhetian, Wu Jingwei, Liu Dan, Chen Bin
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Hearing impairment is considered an important modifiable risk factor for dementia, but whether its association with incident dementia is consistent across inherited susceptibility profiles remains unclear. METHODS: This prospective cohort study included 80,287 UK Biobank participants aged 40 to 69 years at baseline with valid Digit Triplet Test measurements, genetic data, linked follow-up data, and...
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- Humans
- Dementia
- United Kingdom
- Female
- Male
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Aged
