{"id":5447,"date":"2014-03-31T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2022-09-29T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:17:47","slug":"diabetes-and-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/diabetes-and-hearing-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes and Hearing Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe National Institutes of Health recently held a study that included 5,140 adult individuals between the ages of 20 and 69. Nearly 1 out of every 10 participants was diabetic. The study showed a link between diabetes patients and hearing issues, with 21 percent suffering from hearing loss at low and mid-range frequencies, compared to only 9 percent of non-diabetic participants. In addition, 54 percent of the diabetics had difficulty with high frequency sounds, as opposed to 32 percent of non-diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>The study took age-related hearing loss into consideration, and it included a variety of ethnic backgrounds, education levels and socio-economic classifications.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, experts now believe that diabetes is a definite factor in hearing loss\u2014a long neglected consideration. Diabetes will often damage inner ear nerves and blood vessels, so researchers recommend patients with diabetes also receive more regular hearing screens.<\/p>\n<p>Source info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hear-it.org\/Diabetics-twice-as-likely-to-suffer-hearing-loss\">http:\/\/www.hear-it.org\/Diabetics-twice-as-likely-to-suffer-hearing-loss<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health recently held a study that included 5,140 adult individuals between the ages of 20 and 69. Nearly 1 out of every 10 participants was diabetic. The study showed a link between diabetes patients and hearing issues, with 21 percent suffering from hearing loss at low and mid-range frequencies, compared to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Diabetes and Hearing Loss","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1068,12,20,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10727,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}