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General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: ombrerose4 on May 14, 2011, 09:59:23 am

Title: Interesting article
Post by: ombrerose4 on May 14, 2011, 09:59:23 am

Hearing Loss is Associated with the Risk of Developing Dementia-  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/patients/news_and_publications/index.html#hearing

I found this article while doing some research on questions I want to ask at the ANA symposium next month. I am wondering if the study only involved those with naturally occuring hearing losses. I am curious if this will present as a future problem for those of us with SSD from surgery or hearing loss from the presence of AN tumors.

Title: Re: Interesting article
Post by: Jim Scott on May 14, 2011, 11:34:22 am

Lauren ~

Thanks for posting the link to the Johns Hopkins site.  As you noted, the brief article didn't make it clear whether gradual hearing loss from aging, alone or the same level of loss associated with an acoustic neuroma were equivalent predictors of dementia.  This could be vital information so, like you, I would like to know more about this study and it's methodology as well as it's conclusions.

Jim

Title: Re: Interesting article
Post by: PaulW on May 14, 2011, 03:44:56 pm

They know that thickening of the arteries causes deafness through reduced blood flow to the cochlear. Think of heart disease for the cochlear.
Pretty sure a suspected cause of dementia is caused by thickening of arteries and reduced blood flow to the brain.
Therefor I doubt that losing your hearing from an AN is related to dementia
 I am not a doctor

Title: Re: Interesting article
Post by: nftwoed on May 14, 2011, 11:04:42 pm

Hi
  It seems the brain is like many other things and the old adim applies; "Use it, or lose it". Loss of sensory input only seems logical as a predicator of dementia. I'm unsure how esthetics ( as monks ) fare in general.