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Dual Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Impairment in the Korean Longitudinal Elderly Cohort.
Neurology
May 2021
From the Departments of Psychiatry (G.B., J.H.J.) and Neurology (J.-W.J.), Kangwon National University Hospital, Chuncheon; Public Health Medical Service (G.H.O.) and Department of Neuropsychiatry (D.Y.L.), Seoul National University Hospital; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.B.B., J.W.H., K.W.K.), Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam; Department of Psychiatry (T.H.K.), Yonsei University Wonju Severance Christian Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (K.P.K.), Dongguk University Gyeonju Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (B.J.K.), Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju; Department of Neuropsychiatry (S.G.K.), Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine (J.L.K.), Chungnam National University, Daejeon; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine (S.W.M., S.-H.R.), Konkuk University, Konkuk University Chungju Hospital; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.H.P.), Jeju National University Hospital; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.C.Y.), Kyunggi Provincial Hospital for the Elderly, Yongin; Department of Neuropsychiatry (D.W.L.), Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul; Department of Psychiatry (S.B.L., J.J.L.), Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan; and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine (D.Y.L., K.W.K.), and Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, College of Natural Sciences (K.W.K.), Seoul, Korea.
Objective: To investigate the effects of single sensory impairment (SSI; visual or auditory) or dual sensory impairment (DSI; visual and auditory) on dementia and longitudinal changes of neuropsychological test scores.
Methods: In this nationwide, prospective, community-based elderly cohort study, KLOSCAD (the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia), 6,520 elderly individuals (58-101 years) representing the general population were included. We defined visual and auditory sensory impairment via self-report questionnaire: 932 had normal sensory function, 2,957 had an SSI, and 2,631 had a DSI.