Table 1.
Dementia incidence rates by key variables.
Fig 1.
Kaplan-Meier estimator of time to dementia incidence by hearing impairment and treatment by an ENT doctor.
Data source: Claims data AOK 2006–2010; plog rank<0.001.
Fig 2.
Kaplan-Meier estimator of time to dementia incidence by hearing impairment and care level.
Data source: Claims data AOK 2006–2010; plog rank<0.001.
Fig 3.
Kaplan-Meier estimator of time to dementia incidence by hearing impairment and living in a nursing home.
Data source: Claims data AOK 2006–2010; plog rank<0.001.
Fig 4.
Kaplan-Meier estimator of time to dementia incidence by hearing impairment and depression.
Data source: Claims data AOK 2006–2010; plog rank<0.001.
Table 2.
Hazard ratios of incident dementia by hearing impairment and key variables.
Table 3.
Interaction of hearing impairment and treatment by an ENT doctor.
Table 4.
Interaction of hearing impairment and care level.
Table 5.
Interaction of hearing impairment and nursing home.
Table 6.
Interaction of hearing impairment and depression.
Fig 5.
Age-specific prevalence of hearing impairment in health claims data and three epidemiologic studies.
Sources: AOK: health claims data AOK 2006–2010, own calculations; GER—Germany [50]; IT—Italy [51]; GB—Great Britain [52]; dB HL = decibel hearing level.