Association of Hearing Impairment with Declines in Physical Functioning and the Risk of Disability in Older Adults

BACKGROUND: Identifying factors associated with functional declines in older adults is important given the aging of the population. We investigated if hearing impairment is independently associated with objectively measured declines in physical functioning in a community-based sample of older adults...

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Published in:J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
Main Authors: Chen, David S., Betz, Joshua, Yaffe, Kristine, Ayonayon, Hilsa N., Kritchevsky, Stephen, Martin, Kathryn R., Harris, Tamara B., Purchase-Helzner, Elizabeth, Satterfield, Suzanne, Xue, Qian-Li, Pratt, Sheila, Simonsick, Eleanor M., Lin, Frank R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400396/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477427
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glu207
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