Trajectory of Cognitive Decline After Incident Hearing Loss: A 24-year Population-Based Longitudinal Cohort Study

Qin Li, Haohong Lai, Juntao Wu, Haidi Yang, Chaozhou People, s Hospital, Chaozhou Hospital Affiliated to Shantou University Medical College, Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Published online on May 05, 2026

Abstract

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BackgroundThe extent of cognitive decline following incident hearing loss (HL) remains inadequately unexplored.MethodsUsing data from the Health and Retirement Study (from 1998 to 2022), we assessed global cognition, measured by orientation, calculation, ...