Dietary patterns and hearing loss in older men enrolled in the Caerphilly Study

Abstract

The association between dietary patterns (DP) and prevalence of hearing loss in men enrolled in the Caerphilly Prospective Study was investigated. During 1979During -1983, the study recruited 2512 men aged 45-59 years. At baseline, dietary data were collected using a semiquantitative FFQ, and a 7-d weighed food intake (WI) in a 30 % subsample. Five years later, pure-tone unaided audiometric threshold was assessed at 0·5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz. Principal component analysis (PCA) identified three DP and multiple logistic and ordinal logistic regression models examined the association with hearing loss (defined as pure-tone average of frequencies 0·5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz >25 dB). Traditional, healthy and high-sugar/low-alcohol DP were found with both FFQ and WI data. With the FFQ data, fully adjusted models demonstrated significant inverse association between the healthy DP and hearing loss both as a dichotomous variable (OR = 0·83; 95 % CI 0·77, 0·90; P < 0·001) and as an ordinal variable (OR = 0·87; 95 % CI 0·81, 0·94; P < 0·001). With the WI data, fully adjusted models showed a significant and inverse association between the healthy DP and hearing loss (OR = 0·85; 95 % CI 0·73, 0·99; P < 0·03), and a significant association between the traditional DP (per fifth increase) and hearing loss both as a dichotomous variable (OR = 1·18; 95 % CI 1·02, 1·35; P = 0·02) and as an ordinal variable (OR = 1·17; 95 % CI 1·03, 1·33; P = 0·02). A healthy DP was significantly and inversely associated with hearing loss in older men. The role of diet in age-related hearing loss warrants further investigation.

Age‐related hearing loss and cognitive decline: MRI and cellular evidence

“…In another population‐based study, 178 a significant relationship was found between overall dietary quality (measured by a healthy eating index) and hearing thresholds. The findings of other studies also demonstrate the protective role of healthier dietary patterns, 179–182 coffee, 183 moderate alcohol consumption, 184 folic acid supplementation, 185 and dietary vitamin A, vitamin E, 186 and vitamin C intake 187 against hearing loss in middle‐aged and older adults. Overall, the evidence reviewed here suggests that improper nutrition could affect the relationship between ARHL and cognitive decline, and nutritional interventions may help to slow down both hearing loss and cognitive decline 188 …”

Automedicação Em Pacientes Idosos

“…Fonte: Shargorodsky et al 2010;Gopinath et al 2011;Curhan et al 2014;Gallagher et al 2019;Lee et al 2019;Sardone et al 2020. Legenda: PA -Perda auditiva; MMA-Ácido metilmalônico; PD -Padrão dietético;…”

Diet Quality and the Risk of Impaired Speech Reception Threshold in Noise: The UK Biobank cohort

“…Although we adjusted our analyses for ethnicity, education level, and reaction time, as proxies for language capacity and cognitive function, it is unclear how much our results are determined by these circumstances instead of for the net association between diet quality and the capacity to listening in noise. Strengths of this study are a prospective design with a very large sample size that, unlike most previous studies (Curhan et al 2018;Gallagher et al 2019;Curhan et al 2020), included both men and women. In addition, we used an auditory test that focuses on hearing function and human communication, which is highly clinically relevant.…”

“…Strengths of this study are a prospective design with a very large sample size that, unlike most previous studies (Curhan et al 2018; Gallagher et al 2019; Curhan et al 2020), included both men and women. In addition, we used an auditory test that focuses on hearing function and human communication, which is highly clinically relevant.…”

“…However, most of these studies were based on self-reported data on hearing loss. More recently, a few studies using pure-tone testing have found that a healthy diet, as defined by their capacity to prevent chronic diseases (US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Health and Human Services 2015), might protect hearing capacity (Spankovich and Le Prell 2013; Curhan et al 2020; Gallagher et al 2019). These studies used different types of diet patterns, in cross-sectional (Spankovich and Le Prell 2013) as well as longitudinal studies (Curhan et al 2020; Gallagher et al 2019) and assessed a variety of sound frequencies.…”