About P.H. (Pauline) Croll
Introduction
Hearing and brain health in the elderly: interrelations and risk factors.
Recently hearing loss has been identified as a risk factor for dementia. However, the underlying pathway remains unknown. One of the proposed mechanisms suggests that hearing loss directly causes brain alterations due to reduced sensory input. On the other hand, it has been argued that both hearing loss and dementia are a sequale of an underlying shared pathology. Unfortunately, few large population-based studies have been carried out to properly investigate this association.
Therefore, my research focuses on the interrelations and risk factors of hearing loss and brain health in elderly from the population-based Rotterdam Study.
Field of expertise
My field of expertise:
- Age-related hearing loss
- Brain health
- Epidemiology
Education and career
I received my bachelor degree in Psychology and my master degree in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Leiden.
I started my PhD at Erasmus MC in 2016 and received my second master degree in Clinical Epidemiology from NIHES in 2017.
Teaching activities
- Supervising Junior Med School Students (August 2017) "Tinnitus and the brain"
- Teaching assistant ESP01 Principles of Research in Medicine and Epidemiology (August 2018)
- Teaching assistant The practice of Epidemiologic Analysis (August 2018)
- Supervising master student "The assocation between vitamin D and brain tissue volume" (2017/2018)
- Supervising master student "Hearing loss in the elderly and auditory cortex atrophy" (2019)
Other positions
Publications
Better diet quality relates to larger brain tissue volumes: the Rotterdam Study
The association between obesity, diet quality and hearing loss in older adults
Subjective Cognitive Decline Is Associated with Greater White Matter Hyperintensity Volume
Body composition is not related to structural or vascular brain change
Carotid atherosclerosis is associated with poorer hearing in older adults
Associations of vitamin D deficiency with MRI markers of brain health in a community sample
Hearing loss and microstructural integrity of the brain in a dementia-free older population
Hearing loss and cognitive decline in the general Dutch population: a prospective cohort study – accepted for publication
Prevalence of tinnitus in an aging population and its relation to age and hearing loss – accepted for publication
research groups
Participation in researchgroups:
- Neuro-epidemiology Erasmus MC
- Cochlear Center Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
