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RE: Hearing Loss Appears to be a Significant Risk Factor For Dementia
I think a good first step would be to determine the rate of people suffering from the onset of dementia who have not experienced significant hearing loss as well as the rate of people suffering hearing loss that did not also see the onset of dementia.
Studies which only look for correlative factors will only ever find correlative factors.
Maybe the first step should be to file a grant proposal?
I was thinking to make the same comment but you pretty much covered me up
Great minds... inspire squirlz to think outside the box.
I think it will start happening now that the association has been found but decent research takes time - particularly with dementia. I would suggest follow up studies would be better to look at cause and effect, as well as treatment vs non treatment groups but it all helps.
My father just turned 84, he suffers from Type 1 diabetes (formerly type 2) and has significant hearing loss. His hearing aids help but the biggest improvement in his cognitive abilities (i.e. brain fog, forgetfulness, etc.) has come from his recent diagnosis of pernicious anemia and simple B12 injections.
Well even slight issues can cause pseudo dementias in the elderly and certain deficiencies can cause reversible dementias (if treated in time).
I think more emphasis should be made towards stating up-front in clinical studies, who funded the studies.
I've watched both of my parents' health deteriorate as they've been prescribed various pharmaceutical cocktails. I can't help but wonder if they would have been better off, living with that first condition instead of being prescribed more and more drugs to combat the side effects of the previous drugs.
Not to mention the cancers they've both developed, as known side effects of the drugs they were prescribed.
I mention this because of a post by @anonymous about Google funding the authoring of study after study that demonstrated that Google was operating within the framework of legal and ethical behavior.
The authors just kept forgetting to mention the money they got from Google for their scholarly work.
Yes it is a big problem particularly when it is undeclared!