4.8.0.0 Hear­ing Im­pair­ment

Hear­ing im­pair­ment, both in high fre­quen­cy and low/midfre­quen­cy ranges, is more com­mon in peo­ple with di­a­betes than in those with­out, per­haps due to neu­ropa­thy and/‍or vas­cu­lar dis­ease. In a Na­tion­al Health and Nu­tri­tion Ex­am­i­na­tion Sur­vey (NHA­NES) anal­y­sis, hear­ing im­pair­ment was about twice as preva­lent in peo­ple with di­a­betes com­pared with those with­out, after ad­just­ing for age and other risk fac­tors for hear­ing im­pair­ment (67).