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Older individuals with type 2 diabetes are more likely to have brain atrophy than cerebrovascular lesions ? and the pattern resembles that seen in preclinical Alzheimer's disease ? according to a new study that was published online August 12 in Diabetes Care.
Chris Moran, MB, from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used MRI scans and measures of cognitive performance to examine differences between people with and without type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes "was clearly associated with poorer function in visual construction, planning, visual memory, and cognitive speed," they report. "The findings suggest that the predominant pathway linking [type 2 diabetes] and cognition (at least early in the course of disease) is brain atrophy," they add.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809766
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Chris Moran, MB, from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used MRI scans and measures of cognitive performance to examine differences between people with and without type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes "was clearly associated with poorer function in visual construction, planning, visual memory, and cognitive speed," they report. "The findings suggest that the predominant pathway linking [type 2 diabetes] and cognition (at least early in the course of disease) is brain atrophy," they add.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809766
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