Pain and Hearing Difficulty Associations in Six International Aging Cohorts

130,521 participants aged 50-106 from six prospective cohorts link pain trajectories to self-reported hearing difficulty. The data underpins a study finding persistent moderate-severe pain increases hearing difficulty risk by 62% (HR 1.62). Supplementary material for this research was published by Karger on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze cross-sectional associations between pain severity and hearing difficulty based on logistic regression models.
• Model longitudinal risk of hearing difficulty based on distinct pain trajectories derived from biennial assessments.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses on pain-hearing associations incorporating depressive symptoms as a covariate.
• Compare dose-response gradients for pain severity and hearing difficulty outcomes across international cohorts.

Strengths

• Data integrates six nationally-representative aging cohorts across multiple countries.
• Longitudinal analysis includes 11,067 participants with pain trajectories derived from four biennial assessments.
• Primary analyses adjust for multiple covariates including age, sex, education, and health conditions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying analytical dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 1.9 MB file size suggests the dataset is likely supplementary documentation rather than the full source data.

Provenance

Source

Six prospective aging cohorts: HRS (US), ELSA (England), SHARE (Europe), MHAS (Mexico), CHARLS (China), KLoSA (Korea).

Collection Method

Pooled analysis using logistic and Cox regression on cohort data.

Time Range

Covers multiple biennial assessment waves; specific years not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05 06 07:55:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Multinational, covering the United States, England, Europe, Mexico, China, and Korea.