Hearing Impairment Affects Dementia Incidence. An Analysis Based on Longitudinal Health Claims Data in Germany

• Thomas Fritze ,

  * E-mail: thomas.fritze@dzne.de

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany, Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change, Rostock, Germany

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• Stefan Teipel,

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medicine, Rostock, Germany

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• Attila Óvári,

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Ingo Kilimann,

  Affiliations German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medicine, Rostock, Germany

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• Gabriele Witt,

  Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Gabriele Doblhammer

  Affiliations Institute for Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

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