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Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes?
Dementia and Diabetes Linked in Elderly
Research is increasingly linking dementia and diabetes, with their shared infamous reputation for cutting a wide and speedy path through our aging population.
The findings, in fact, are eye-opening: Studies show that people who develop diabetes in midlife or later are at twice the risk for developing dementia. Diabetes is characterized by chronic high blood sugar, a condition which harms the brain, the resident area of dementia.
This link may seem to be yet another blow to caregivers whose burdens are already stacked too high. A closer look, however, shows that this new information may actually make it possible to stave off dementia in their loved one and themselves -- by preventing or controlling diabetes.
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