Growing Evidence About Connections between Alzheimer's and Diabetes
Research from Michal Schnaider Beeri and colleagues of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and colleagues looked at sugar related toxins that are known as advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in the elderly. The researchers found that these toxins were also increased in people with diabetes and in people with cardiovascular and kidney disease. AGEs were also are present in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s Just under 200 cognitively healthy people aged 70 years old or more took part in the study. The subjects were given tests for memory and thinking ability, and their blood AGE levels were measured. They found that people with the highest AGE levels did significantly worse on six different tests than those with low AGE levels and they tended to do worse on four more tests.
Article Source: Michal Schnaider Beeri – Advanced Glycation Is Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Very Old Women. Paper Presented to the 10th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in Madrid. Research funded by NIA/NIH.
