Many people with diabetes have experienced sensorineural hearing loss, but what is the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss?
According to the American Diabetes Association, there are about 37 million people with diabetes in America, and up to about 34.5 million cases have some type of hearing loss. That accounts for 93 percent of all the diabetic patients.
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that hearing loss is twice as common in people who have diabetes as it is in people of the same age who don’t.
Even people with prediabetes (having blood glucose higher than normal but not enough to develop type 2 diabetes) have a 30 percent higher risk of hearing loss than people with normal blood glucose….