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ArticleGeriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Social Determinants of Association among Diabetes Mellitus, Visual Impairment and Hearing Loss in a Middle-Aged or Old Population: Artificial-Neural-Network Analysis of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2014⁻2016).

Kwang-Sig Lee, Kun Woo Park

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Article in Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kwang-Sig LeeCenter for Artificial Intelligence, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul 02841, Korea. ecophy@hanmail.net.
Kun Woo ParkDepartment of Neurology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul 02841, Korea. kunu@korea.ac.kr.
Korea University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study introduces a new framework based on an artificial neural network (ANN) for testing whether social determinants are major determinants of association among diabetes mellitus, visual impairment and hearing loss in a middle-aged or old population.

methodsThe data came from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2014⁻2016), with 6120 participants aged 45 years or more. The association was divided into eight categories: one category for having no disease, three categories for having one, three categories for having two and one category for having three. Variable importance, the effect of a variable on model performance, was used to evaluate the hypothesis based on whether family support, socioeconomic status and social activity in Y2014 are among the top 10 determinants of the association in the year 2016 (Y2016).

resultsBased on variable importance from the ANN, brothers/sisters cohabiting (0.0167), voluntary activity (0.0148), income (0.0125), family activity (0.0125), parents alive (0.0121), leisure activity (0.0095) and meeting with friends (0.0092) in Y2014 are the top-10 determinants of comorbidity in Y2016.

conclusionThe findings of this study support the hypothesis, highlighting the importance of social determinants for the effective management of the comorbidities of the three diseases.

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associationdiabetes mellitushearing lossold populationsocial determinantvisual impairment

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PMID30934564
PMCPMC6473411
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