Diabetes Linked to Higher Alzheimer's Risk - Study
Mon May 17, 2004 04:03 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with diabetes could have a higher risk of brain-wasting Alzheimer's disease, a U.S. study said on Monday.
Among those in the study with diabetes, the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease was 65 percent greater than those without diabetes.
Of 824 elderly Catholic nuns, priests, and brothers participating in the study, 151 developed Alzheimer's disease, according to the study in The Archives of Neurology. Thirty-one of those who developed the disease had diabetes.
Participants with diabetes also had lower levels of cognition and greater memory problems, said researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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