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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes has already been tied to an increased risk of kidney and cardiovascular troubles, nerve damage and vision loss, and now a new study finds diabetics to be more than twice as likely as those without the disease to have hearing impairment.
In a review of past research on the question, scientists in Japan also found that younger diabetics were at even higher risk than older adults - though they cannot explain why, and experts caution that this kind of study does not prove that diabetes is directly responsible for the greater hearing loss rates.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-diabetes-hearing-loss-idUKBRE8AT1CD20121130
In a review of past research on the question, scientists in Japan also found that younger diabetics were at even higher risk than older adults - though they cannot explain why, and experts caution that this kind of study does not prove that diabetes is directly responsible for the greater hearing loss rates.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-diabetes-hearing-loss-idUKBRE8AT1CD20121130