Links that link diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease yet again
April 12, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
As I have written about several times before, diabetes and dementia are closely related. They have even coined Alzheimer’s the third type of diabetes among many studies.
Here are 2 more links for you along the same lines…
Diabetes in mid-life linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease- Men who develop diabetes in mid-life appear to significantly increase their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a long-term study published in the April 9, 2008, online issue of Neurology…
One third of risk for dementia attributable to small vessel disease- Alzheimer’s disease may be what most people fear as they grow older, but autopsy data from a long-range study of 3,400 men and women in the Seattle region found that the brains of a third of those who had become demented before death showed evidence of small vessel damage: the type of small, cumulative injury that can come from hypertension or diabetes.
