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Association of Hearing Impairment with Incident Depressive Symptoms: A Community-Based Prospective Study.
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The American journal of medicine [Am J Med] 2019 Dec; Vol. 132 (12), pp. 1441-1449.e4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jun 24. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Objective: The aim was to investigate the potential association between hearing impairment and incident depressive symptoms.<br />Methods: Using a prospective community-based cohort study in France (the Paris Prospective Study III), participants aged 50-75 years were recruited between 2008 and 2012 and thereafter followed up every 2 years up to 2018. Hearing impairment, measured at study recruitment by audiometry testing, was defined as a pure tone average >25 decibels in the better ear. Incident depressive symptoms, measured using the validated 13-item Questionnaire of Depression 2 <superscript>nd</superscript> version, was assessed during follow-up. Multivariate generalized estimating equations were used to compute odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).<br />Results: Among 7591 participants free of depressive symptoms at baseline (mean age 59.8 years, 63% of men), 14.3% had hearing impairment. Over 6 years of follow-up, 479 subjects (6.3%) had incident depressive symptoms. The OR for incident depressive symptoms was 1.36 for subjects with baseline hearing impairment (95% CI, 1.06-1.73). A pooled analysis of 4 published prospective studies yielded a multivariable relative risk of baseline hearing impairment for incident depressive symptoms of 1.29 (95% CI, 1.09-1.53).<br />Conclusions: In this community-based prospective cohort study of participants aged 50 to 75 years, baseline hearing impairment was associated with a 36% increased odds of incident depressive symptoms.<br /> (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- Age Distribution
Aged
Cohort Studies
Comorbidity
Confidence Intervals
Female
France
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Odds Ratio
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Severity of Illness Index
Sex Distribution
Surveys and Questionnaires
Depression diagnosis
Depression epidemiology
Disability Evaluation
Hearing Loss diagnosis
Hearing Loss epidemiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1555-7162
- Volume :
- 132
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31247178
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.05.039