“…More recent population-based epidemiological studies (e.g., Bainbridge, Cheng, & Cowie, 2010;Bainbridge, Hoffman, & Cowie, 2008;Dalton, Cruickshanks, Klein, Klein, & Wiley, 1998) and systematic reviews or meta-analyses (Akinpelu, Mujica-Mota, & Daniel, 2014;Horikawa et al, 2013) support increased prevalence and incidence of hearing loss among adults with type 2 diabetes, although the strength of this association tended to weaken with advancing age. The systematic review and meta-analysis by Akinpelu et al (2014) also observed prolonged auditory brainstem response Wave V latencies among diabetics, suggesting an impact on higher level auditory processing. Konrad-Martin et al (2016), in a study of 222 older veterans, about half with type 2 diabetes and half without, found significantly longer latencies for cortical auditory evoked potentials, especially the P2 component.…”