Healthful Diets and Risk of Hearing Loss

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: no intervention-this was an observational study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03351023

2007P000876

Details and patient eligibility

About

To prospectively examine the relations between adherence scores for three healthful dietary patterns, the Alternate Mediterranean diet (AMED), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), and the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010), and risk of hearing loss in the Nurses' Health Study II.

Enrollment: 70,966 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 27 to 66 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The investigators limited the study to women who provided information on their hearing on the 2009 or 2013 questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

• The investigators excluded those who did not provide responses to the hearing questions on either questionnaire, reported a hearing problem that began before baseline for the current analysis (1991) or did not report date of onset, or reported cancer other than non-melanoma skin cancer. The investigators also excluded women who did not complete the baseline diet questionnaire and who had missing diet information for each subsequent time period.

Trial design

70,966 participants in 1 patient group

Nurses' Health Study II

Description:

Nurses' Health Study II, an ongoing cohort study of 116,430 female registered nurses in the US, aged 25-42 at enrollment in 1989. Participants have been followed by biennial mailed questionnaires that elicit updated information on diet, lifestyle, and various health outcomes; the follow-up rate over 26 years exceeds 90% of the eligible person-time.

Treatment:

Other: no intervention-this was an observational study