Monday, June 16, 2008

Diabetes and Hearing Loss

A recently published paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine reports the finding of an increased incidence of hearing loss among people with diabetes. The authors speculate that this may represent a microvascular complication of diabetes.

Read the article at http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/0000605-200807010-00231v1 and share your thoughts.

2 comments:

DA Blog said...

It would make sense, since hyperglycemia damages most of the other nerves in the body.

A colleague of mine has been looking at the correlations between diabetes control and dementia. Interesting stuff.

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