Posted by Rania Amer
Sunday, May 28, 2023 06:00 AM
A study found that suffering from a high percentage of Sugar In the blood at a young age may be an indicator of an increased risk of dementia, according to the British newspaper The Independent.
The findings suggest that preventing the condition from progressing from prediabetes to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes could mean a significant reduction in future cases of dementia, according to the researchers.
Prediabetes is defined as a condition where blood sugar is high but has not yet crossed the threshold of type 2 diabetes.
Prediabetes is associated with a higher risk of developing diabetes but is also independently associated with other health changes.
Most patients who first develop diabetes go through this stage of prediabetes.
To look at the risk of dementia associated with prediabetes, the authors analyzed data from people from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC) in the United States.
According to the study, there was a three times greater risk of developing dementia for those who develop type 2 diabetes before the age of 60.
And if the diabetes was diagnosed between the ages of 60 to 69 years, the rate of dementia was 73%.
And when people were diagnosed with diabetes between the ages of 70 and 79, the incidence of dementia dropped to 23%.
The findings, published in the journal Diabetologia, suggest that at age 80 or older, having diabetes was not associated with an increased risk of dementia.
Professor Selvin said: “Prediabetes is associated with a higher risk of dementia, but this risk is explained by the development of diabetes. The earlier age at onset of diabetes was also associated with a greater risk of dementia.”
The researchers added: “Prediabetes is associated with the risk of developing dementia, but this risk is explained by the development of diabetes. The onset of diabetes at an early age is most associated with dementia. Thus, preventing or delaying the progression of prediabetes to diabetes will significantly reduce the burden. future dementia.”
The study, conducted by doctoral student Jiaqi Ho and Professor Elisabeth Selvin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US and colleagues, assessed the association of prediabetes with dementia risk before and after accounting for the subsequent development of type 2 diabetes.
The researchers reached the latest findings on the association of dementia with diabetes, by tracking the case of 11,656 people without diabetes, including 2,330 (20%) with prediabetes, for more than 3 decades.
2023-05-28 03:00:00
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