A new study has offered very interesting findings for diabetes and dementia. The study was performed by the Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus researchers and investigators from the University of California, San Francisco.
The study focused on individuals of Mexican ancestry but may extend to other populations as well. The central findings of the study indicate that in person’s with diabetes, dementia is formed as a result of vascular disease in the brain, while dementia in non-diabetic individuals was more likely attributed to plaque deposits such as those seen in Alzheimer’s patients.
The findings are encouraging as they suggest that by avoiding diabetes, the vascular dementia in diabetics can also be avoided. The findings agree with a number of autopsies performed that show the same vascular abnormalities.
This research is promising as well from the perspective of predicting Alzheimer’s likelihood as now the diabetic condition can be noted in the experimental blood test that can be used.
The study came from a sub-study of the NIH-funded study called the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA). For more information, please visit http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/194773.php.
