“In terms of the strengths of the findings, we’re not talking about a 20 percent or 40 percent increase; the two- to five-fold higher rate of dementia we’ve documented in one study is just a huge effect,” said Frank R. Lin, MD, PhD, an assistant professor in the division of otology, neurotology and skull base surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, assistant professor in the division of geriatric medicine in the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health and assistant professor in the departments of epidemiology and mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. “My collaborators at the NIA [National Institute on Aging] were very surprised at the strength of the association.”
Dr. Lin’s research has been supported by a Triological Society/American College of Surgeons Clinical Scientist Development Award, a National Institute on Deafness and Other Commucations Disorders/National Institutes of Health Career Development Award and the Elearnor Schwartz Charitable Foundation.
Given the rapidly aging population and the shortcomings of current hearing-loss therapy, “this is an under-recognized issue that has to be addressed,” said Dr. Lin.
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