Type 3 Diabetes

Individuals with diabetes have a much greater chance of developing dementia, according to journal Neurology. Researchers found that people with diabetes have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, such as vascular dementia. Even after other risk factors for dementia were taken into consideration, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, the trend was still material.

The study followed the health progress of 1,017 individuals at least 60 years of age for 11 years. During this period, 232 of them developed dementia. It was found that those with diabetes had double the risk of developing dementia compared to those with normal blood glucose levels. In addition, the study found that people with pre-diabetes had a higher risk of developing dementia. And even those who were not pre-diabetic, but whose blood sugar levels remained high two hours after a meal, also had a higher dementia risk. The researchers note that their findings raise the need to consider diabetes, now a common and rapidly increasing disease, as a potential risk factor for dementia.

Steve - this is why, for a while now, integrative healthcare practitioners have termed cognitive decline as Type 3 Diabetes. Blood sugar imbalance is integrally linked with the brain's cognitive abilities. Unfortunately, as a recent Lancet study pointed out, aggressively treating the diabetic condition after the fact does little to stem the cognitive-lowering tide. Prevention is the key.

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