Researchers have found that people diagnosed with diabetes in their 50’s are significantly more likely than others to suffer mental decline by their 70’s.
The study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, started in 1990. Scientists examined 13,351 black and white adults, aged 48 to 67, for diabetes and prediabetes using self-reported physician diagnoses and glucose control tests. They also administered widely used tests of memory, reasoning, problem solving and planning.
About 13 percent had diabetes at the start. The researchers followed them with five periodic examinations over the following 20 years. By that time, 5,987 participants were still enrolled.
After adjusting for numerous health and behavioral factors, and for the large attrition in the study, the researchers found people with diabetes suffered a 30 percent larger decline in mental acuity than those without the disease.
Yogurt May Lower Diabetes Risk
Regular consumption of yogurt may help lower the risk for Type 2 diabetes, a new study has found.
Researchers followed almost 200,000 men and women ages 25 to 75 for as long as 30 years, tracking their health with periodic interviews and their diets with detailed food questionnaires. They found 15,156 cases of Type 2 diabetes over the course of the study. Then they pooled their data with data from previous studies in a meta-analysis. The report appears online in BMC Medicine.
After adjusting for age, body mass index, smoking, hypertension and many other health and behavioral characteristics, they found that total dairy consumption, either high-fat or low-fat, was not associated with the risk for Type 2 diabetes.
But yogurt was different. Compared to eating the average amount of 4 ounces a day, eating 12 ounces a day was associated with an 18 percent reduction in the risk for Type 2 diabete
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