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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Contrary to popular belief, repeated low blood sugar episodes do not appear to cause brain damage.
That’s according to Dr. Alan M. Jacobson, a psychiatrist who is one of the world’s foremost experts on the relationship between diabetes and cognitive function. Jacobson is Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Research Center at Winthrop-University Hospital and served as Director, Psychiatric Services at the Joslin Diabetes Center for more than 30 years.
“We studied this intently and what we found was that hypoglycemia did not appear to confer an additional risk to reduced brain function,” Jacobson says.
Dr. Alan M. JacobsonJacobson was involved in the most comprehensive long-term study of whether hypoglycemia adversely impacts brain function. As part of a team Jacobson studied the effects of improved blood sugar control on type 1 diabetic patients who were participants in The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial—or DCCT. The DCCT tracked 1,441 type 1 diabetic patients ages 13 to 39 for six years to determine whether tighter blood sugar near the normal, non-diabetic range helped them avoid complications from diabetes, such as retinopathy and kidney disease.
http://asweetlife.org/feature/repeated-hypoglycemia-is-not-directly-linked-to-brain-damage/
That’s according to Dr. Alan M. Jacobson, a psychiatrist who is one of the world’s foremost experts on the relationship between diabetes and cognitive function. Jacobson is Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Research Center at Winthrop-University Hospital and served as Director, Psychiatric Services at the Joslin Diabetes Center for more than 30 years.
“We studied this intently and what we found was that hypoglycemia did not appear to confer an additional risk to reduced brain function,” Jacobson says.
Dr. Alan M. JacobsonJacobson was involved in the most comprehensive long-term study of whether hypoglycemia adversely impacts brain function. As part of a team Jacobson studied the effects of improved blood sugar control on type 1 diabetic patients who were participants in The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial—or DCCT. The DCCT tracked 1,441 type 1 diabetic patients ages 13 to 39 for six years to determine whether tighter blood sugar near the normal, non-diabetic range helped them avoid complications from diabetes, such as retinopathy and kidney disease.
http://asweetlife.org/feature/repeated-hypoglycemia-is-not-directly-linked-to-brain-damage/