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So is hearing loss not associated with dementia or is it that hearing loss is associated with dementia and hearing aids might increase the chances for dementia?

• smcin 3y ago
  Jiang et al. (2023) was not replicable, is what. I don't see this one retraction proves/disproves causality one way or the other; without looking at all other studies on the same thing. It does however prove that The Lancet isn't very scrupulous about forcing authors to retract even when a paper is discredited, or properly crediting third-parties with discovering serious errors (rather than fogging things to suggest the authors voluntarily initiated the retraction, which they didn't).
• Beldin 3y ago
  First, as sibling comment stated: unclear. A thought-to-exist correlation was shown to be spurious. Second: in my complete and utter layman's view, it is far more likely that the causation is the other way around. That is: dementia could come across as hearing loss for the affected individual (or their nearest). As such, people with dementia would be more likely to get hearing aids - and therefore people with hearing aids would be more likely to suffer from dementia than people without. This is complete and utter speculation, but this line of reasoning makes more sense to me than the reverse (using hearing aids would aggravate dementia). Nevertheless, can't tell without data.