Diabetes becomes much crueler, leads to deafness as well

Nobody can deny the dangers Diabetes possess, as it recently been labeled by the World Health Organization as the 7^th leading cause of death by 2030.

The so called disease of the modern age, not only reduce your life numbers, it also seriously affects the quality of life in process.

According to The Health Site, as per the latest research diabetes can also damage the auditory system, and also revealed that the clinics should also include hearing testing in managing type-2 diabetes.

“An association between diabetes and hearing impairment in human subjects has been shown in many, but not all, studies. Direct comparison of these studies is complicated due to a lack of consistency in defining hearing impairment and other factors,” said Elizabeth Helzner, researcher from SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Helzner said, “However, the association between diabetes and hearing impairment tends to be stronger in studies that included younger participants, perhaps because in older samples, other causes of age-related hearing impairment may mask the contribution of diabetes to the impairment.”

“This factor in itself lends weight to the notion that type 2 diabetes can damage hearing,” she added.

As per The Economics Times, the researchers further informed that well-designed longitudinal studies are required, in order to identify whether patients with diabetes are at increased risk of early-onset of hearing impairment, and whether the hearing impairment progress varies based on their diabetes status, as well as disease management factors, after taking into account other contributors to hearing sensitivity.