Open AccessDo Hearing Aids Prevent Falls? Commentary on Study From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Author(s) -
Danielle S Powell,
Kening Jiang,
Jennifer A. Deal,
Nicholas Reed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
american journal of audiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.688
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1558-9137
pISSN - 1059-0889
DOI - 10.1044/2021_aja-21-00120
Subject(s) - clarity , hearing loss , salience (neuroscience) , national health and nutrition examination survey , medicine , tinnitus , context (archaeology) , audiology , psychology , gerontology , environmental health , cognitive psychology , population , biochemistry , chemistry , paleontology , biology
This letter serves to underscore the importance of understanding the relationship between hearing loss treatment and falls and to provide additional clarity and commentary on the interpretation of the results by Riska et al. (2021). With the salience of falls for older adults, clear interpretation of results in context is necessary to understand the evidence available and need for future studies.