A team of experts from Shanghai confirmed that wearing hearing aids can reverse cognitive impairment in young and old. The “Chinese Geriatric Hearing and Cognitive Health” randomized controlled study led by Professor Wu Hao's team from the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was published online in the authoritative international journal “Journal of the American Medical Association: Journal of Neurology” on September 28, 2026. Research shows that among elderly people with moderate to severe hearing loss with mild cognitive impairment, the proportion of cognitive function returning to normal within two years of standardized hearing aid testing reached 15.34%, about 6 times that of the comparison group without hearing aids.
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A team of experts from Shanghai confirmed that wearing hearing aids can reverse cognitive impairment in young and old. The “Chinese Geriatric Hearing and Cognitive Health” randomized controlled study led by Professor Wu Hao's team from the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was published online in the authoritative international journal “Journal of the American Medical Association: Journal of Neurology” on September 28, 2026. Research shows that among elderly people with moderate to severe hearing loss with mild cognitive impairment, the proportion of cognitive function returning to normal within two years of standardized hearing aid testing reached 15.34%, about 6 times that of the comparison group without hearing aids.
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