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From Vox.com: “It’s not yet clear why, but there’s a strong correlation between even mild hearing loss and an increased risk in cognitive decline and dementia ... Hearing may be important to dementia because of what University College London professor Gill Livingston called ‘the use it or lose it model.’‘ We get a lot of intellectual stimulation through hearing,’ she told Vox. Less education is also associated with an increased risk of dementia because of something researchers call ‘cognitive reserve,’ or a person’s resistance to assaults on the brain.”