Hyperglycaemia accelerates cognitive decline
And brain scans show how
6th September 2018
By Clare Pain
People aged over 60 with diabetes or prediabetes experience accelerated cognitive decline, likely caused by microvascular lesions, a study shows.
The Swedish study of more than 2700 people, without dementia at baseline and a mean age of 72 years, showed that those with prediabetes and diabetes had a greater decline in cognitive function scores over follow-up than those without the conditions.
Participants with prediabetes or diabetes lost up to three points on the Mini-Mental State Examination over the nine-year follow-up period, averaging scores below 27 or 26