Diabetes Self-Management

GIVE HEARING AIDS A CHANCE

n estimated 48 million people in the United States have some degree of hearing loss, and studies show that hearing loss is twice as common in people with diabetes as in those without it. Scientists don’t know exactly how diabetes contributes to hearing loss, but they suspect that, just as prolonged high blood glucose damages blood vessels in the eyes, kidneys and other body parts, it may damage the vessels in and leading to the inner ear as

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