Recent Reviews on the Association Between Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Dementia (Clinical Interventions in Aging / WJD / BBC News)

Summary

There is growing awareness of the relationships between Type 2 Diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia.

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Li, X. Song, D. [and] Leng, SX. (2015). Link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease: from epidemiology to mechanism and treatment. Clinical Interventions in Aging, March 10^th 2015, 10, pp.549-60. (Click here to view the PubMed abstract).

More recently:

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Sridhar, GR. Lakshmi, G. [and] Nagamani, G. (2015). Emerging links between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease. World Journal of Diabetes, June 10^th 2015, Vol.6(5), pp.744-51. (Click here to view the PubMed abstract).

Incidental interest (on the prevalence of T2DM in Scotland)

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Type 2 diabetes cases in Scotland ‘up by 40% in 10 years’. London: BBC Health News / BBC Scotland News, February 11^th 2020.