Diabetes and Cognitive Decline

A new study of some 5,000 older people in the UK has shown that rates of long-term cognitive decline are steeper in those who have diabetes compared with people with normal blood sugar control, and that efforts to delay the onset of diabetes and/or control blood sugar levels might prevent subsequent progression of brain function decline.

The study, based on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, is by Dr Wuxiang Xie, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK, and Peking University Clinical Research Institute, Beijing, China, and colleagues, and is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Zheng, F., Yan, L., Yang, Z. et al. HbA1c, diabetes and cognitive decline: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Diabetologia (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-017-4541-7 (open access)



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