LOS ANGELES — Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows. Those who don’t use hearing aids but should may want to make wearing them one of their New Year’s resolutions, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC published today in The Lanc...
I like where your heads at, here's the study with a solid summary up front:
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-7568%2823%2900232-5
It has a great sample (nearly 10,000 folks with a mean age of 48.6 and having a standard deviation of 18.1) and the findings fortified previous studies. Biggest thing is the fact 12.7% of those with hearing aids rock em, and rocking em is the defining feature in the study. Even when non-consistent users were grouped together with those never having used a hearing aid, the consistent group lived longer. This alone shows going to the doc isn't as impactful as you might to think.
Edit: The work also states more research is required, but the data is looking like something big would have to arise to disprove the construct!
I like where your heads at, here's the study with a solid summary up front: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-7568%2823%2900232-5
It has a great sample (nearly 10,000 folks with a mean age of 48.6 and having a standard deviation of 18.1) and the findings fortified previous studies. Biggest thing is the fact 12.7% of those with hearing aids rock em, and rocking em is the defining feature in the study. Even when non-consistent users were grouped together with those never having used a hearing aid, the consistent group lived longer. This alone shows going to the doc isn't as impactful as you might to think.
Edit: The work also states more research is required, but the data is looking like something big would have to arise to disprove the construct!