Table 3 Association of peripheral hearing loss and incident cognitive impairment (in relation to: the ear sides associated with PTA results, maximum follow-up of each cohort, racial and sexual distributions of each cohort, statistical adjustment, and hearing and cognitive evaluations each cohort had applied).

From: The risk of cognitive impairment associated with hearing function in older adults: a pooled analysis of data from eleven studies

Variables

Coefficient (95% CI)

Meta-regression P

Ear sides (PTA)

−0.14 (−0.36–0.08)

0.188

Maximum follow-up

0.33 (0.13–0.53)

0.004

Ethnicity

−0.02 (−0.66–0.61)

0.942

Gender

0.15 (−0.15–0.44)

0.294

Adjustment

−0.01 (−0.10–0.08)

0.829

Hearing measures

0.61 (−0.75–1.97)

0.345

Cognitive evaluations

−0.35 (−1.44–0.74)

0.496

  1. Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval, PTA = pure-tone average.
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