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Bad breath and diabetes are two conditions that often occur mysteriously at the same time. While your doctor may not have told you that there is a link between bad breath and diabetes, if you have chronic bad breath and diabetes, the two are probably related. Poor blood sugar control increases your risk of bad breath, and diabetes sufferers fit this description. High blood sugar levels make gum disease worse, a common cause of bad breath, and diabetes then becomes harder to control due to the gum disease. So not only is bad breath more likely to occur in diabetes sufferers, but bad breath and diabetes each in turn cause the other condition to become harder to control and deal with.