Hearing loss linked to heightened heart failure risk

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Hearing loss is increasingly common, particularly as people age, while the prevalence of heart failure is also on the rise, affecting around 64 million people worldwide, note the researchers.

While impaired hearing is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, principally, it is thought, as a result of the resulting social detachment, no study has comprehensively examined the association between objectively measured hearing ability and the risk of developing heart failure.

In a bid to plug this knowledge gap, the researchers mined the data of 164,431 participants from the UK Biobank, 4369 of whom wore hearing aids. None had heart failure to begin with. The average age of participants was 56, and 89,818 (around 55%) were women.

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