Why diabetes could be quietly affecting your hearing
New research points to a clear link between type 2 diabetes and hearing loss, one that has received far less attention than other well known diabetes complications. A review of 29 studies covering more than 17,000 participants found that adults with type 2 diabetes are more than twice as likely to experience clinically significant hearing […]
The hearing habits worth changing before it is too late
Hearing loss was once considered an inevitable feature of aging, something that arrived quietly in the later decades of life and was simply accepted as part of getting older. That picture has shifted considerably. Audiologists and public health researchers are now tracking a troubling rise in noise-induced hearing loss among people in their twenties and […]
Dangerous hearing loss habits that may raise dementia risk
A growing body of research is drawing a clearer line between how well people hear and how well their brains age. A new study found that two specific middle ear conditions cholesteatoma, an abnormal skin growth in the ear, and eardrum perforation are both associated with a meaningfully higher risk of developing dementia. While researchers are […]