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Loneliness as a Pathway Linking Hearing Decline to Cognitive Aging: Longitudinal and Genetic Evidence

2026-04-18

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Age-related hearing loss is linked to loneliness and poorer cognitive health, but it remains unclear whether loneliness helps explain associations between hearing difficulties and cognitive performance or dementia, and whether these patterns reflect causal pathways or shared underlying liability. In this preregistered study, we triangulated analyses across multiple data sources spanning approximately 18 years of o...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.16.26351059

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