April 23, 2012 Diabetes Does Cause Hearing Loss This is another
diabetes complication that often is ignored. It is ignored
because people do not consider hearing loss as being a
complication. Consider how many of our organs may are affected
by diabetes. If you have diabetes, you may figure that you are
at twice the risk of having hearing loss. One way to avoid this
and most diabetes complication is to manage your diabetes by
maintaining careful management of your blood glucose levels.
Keeping these as close to normal or at normal is good for
keeping complications away. This applies to all complications.
Let your blood glucose levels take off for the stratosphere and
your odds of developing the complications go up with them. With
hearing, it is the small blood vessels and nerves in your inner
ear that become damaged by high blood glucose over a period of
time. Autopsy studies of diabetes patients have shown the
evidence of this damage. The study researchers discovered the
high rate of hearing loss with diabete