Research posted by The Times has suggested that wearing hearing aids in middle age wards off dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hearing aids protect against dementia and should be worn by middle-aged adults as soon as they notice hearing loss, research suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The landmark study looked at 438,000 people in the UK, who had an average age of 56, and followed them for 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One in four reported some level of hearing loss as they grew older. This group were 42 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But using hearing aids completely eliminated the extra risk of dementia linked to going deaf, making them a \u201cpowerful tool\u201d in the global fight against the syndrome, researchers found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts said that hearing aids help maintain connections between brain cells, preventing the well-established negative effects of hearing loss on brain health including of a lack of sensory stimulation and reduced social interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n