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A new report has identified several factors that can strongly predict at age 60 if people will develop dementia by 80, including having diabetes, not exercising, having a stroke, and not engaging ...
People with both a body mass index (BMI) indicating obesity and a diagnosis of diabetes before age 50 showed the highest risk for dementia in the study. Type 2 diabetes is associated with several ...
Getting diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 50 may increase one's risk of developing dementia by 1.9 times, a new study has found.
Type 3 diabetes is a proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [1] Specifically, the term refers to a set of common biochemical and metabolic features seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, and in other tissues in diabetes; [1] [2] it may thus be considered a "brain-specific type of diabetes."
There is a known link between type 2 diabetes and dementia, with data suggesting that people with type 2 diabetes have a 50 percent greater risk of losing cognitive function.
Type 2 diabetes patients also have a 25%-90% increase for cognitive impairment. [38] In 2018, African Americans were twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to die from diabetes, and African American adults are 60% more likely than non-Hispanic whites to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. [42]
A study of Korean AD patients identified elevated prevalence of hypertension (71.6% AD vs 55% control) and diabetes (44.9% AD vs 30.1% control) in AD patients compared to control patients. [29] Depressive symptoms and diabetes were also more increased in cognitively impaired Chinese Americans compared to White Americans. [30]
A new study published on August 28 in the journal Diabetes Care reports that while people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes may be at risk for accelerated brain aging, making healthy lifestyle ...