Concurrent vision and hearing impairment associated with cognitive dysfunction in a population aged 85+ years: the Ural Very Old Study.
Mukharram M BikbovGyulli M KazakbaevaEllina M RakhimovaIuliia A RusakovaAlbina A FakhretdinovaAzaliia M TuliakovaSonghomitra Panda-JonasNatalia I BolshakovaKamilia R SafiullinaAinur V GizzatovIldar P PonomarevDilya F YakupovaNail E BaymukhametovNikolay A NikitinJost Bruno JonasPublished in: BMJ open (2022)
In this very old, multiethnic population from Russia, DSI (prevalence 20.5%), as compared with hearing impairment (OR 2.18) and vision impairment alone (OR 2.09), had a stronger association (OR 2.80) with dementia. The findings show the importance of hearing and vision impairment, in particular their combined occurrence, for dementia prevalence in an old population.