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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 132, Issue 12, Pages 1441-+Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.05.039
Keywords
Cohort study; Depressive symptoms; Hearing impairment; Prospective
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- National Research Agency (ANR)
- Research Foundation for Hypertension (RFHTA)
- Research Institute in Public Health (IRESP)
- Region Ile de France (Domaine d'Interet Majeur)
- National Research Agency grant
- L'Institute Servier travel grant
- Prestige
- Lefoulon Delalande Fellowship
- Marie Curie Fellowship
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OBJECTIVE: The aim was to investigate the potential association between hearing impairment and incident depressive symptoms. METHODS: Using a prospective community-based cohort study in France (the Paris Prospective Study III), participants aged 50-75 years were recruited between 2008 and 2012 and thereafter followed up every 2 years up to 2018. Hearing impairment, measured at study recruitment by audiometry testing, was defined as a pure tone average >25 decibels in the better ear. Incident depressive symptoms, measured using the validated 13-item Questionnaire of Depression 2nd version, was assessed during follow-up. Multivariate generalized estimating equations were used to compute odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS: Among 7591 participants free of depressive symptoms at baseline (mean age 59.8 years, 63% of men), 14.3% had hearing impairment. Over 6 years of follow-up, 479 subjects (6.3%) had incident depressive symptoms. The OR for incident depressive symptoms was 1.36 for subjects with baseline hearing impairment (95% CI, 1.06-1.73). A pooled analysis of 4 published prospective studies yielded a multivariable relative risk of baseline hearing impairment for incident depressive symptoms of 1.29 (95% CI, 1.09-1.53). CONCLUSIONS: In this community-based prospective cohort study of participants aged 50 to 75 years, baseline hearing impairment was associated with a 36% increased odds of incident depressive symptoms. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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