Diabetes Takes Toll on Women's Hearing: Study

FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Diabetes is associated with hearing loss in women, especially if the blood sugar disease isn't well-controlled, new research indicates.

Doctors Health Press Supports Study Showing That Diabetes Could Boost the Risk of Hearing Loss

Doctors Health Press Supports Study Showing That Diabetes Could Boost the Risk of Hearing Loss The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new study showing that diabetes, if not controlled well, boosts the risk of hearing loss. The Doctors Health Press, a ...

Older Women with Diabetes Have Greater Hearing Loss as They Age

Jan. 26, 2012 - Having diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Lifelines for people with hearing loss

Hearing loss, a disability currently untreated in about 85 percent of those affected, may be the nation's most damaging and costly sensory handicap. It is a hidden disability, often not obvious to others or even to those who have it. Its onset is usually insidious, gradually worsening over years and thus easily ignored.

Study: Diabetes affects hearing loss, especially in women

Having diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Women between the ages of 60 and 75 with well-controlled diabetes had better hearing than women with poorly controlled diabetes, with similar hearing levels to those ...