Diabetes Can Double Odds of Alzheimer's

(WebMD)  Diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia, according to a new report.

The study, which focused on the health of 13,693 Swedish twins, found that people who are diagnosed with diabetes before age 65 have more than double the chance of developing Alzheimer's disease. The link was not as strong for people diagnosed with diabetes late in life.

Weili Xu, PhD of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues write that their findings offer one more reason for people "to maintain a healthy lifestyle during adulthood in order to reduce the risk of dementia late in life."

Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Participants in the study were all part of the Swedish Twin Registry and were at least 65 when the study began in 1998. The study lasted until 2001. The study looked at the twins as a group and also made comparisons within twin sets.

Of all the participants, 467 were diagnosed with dementia, including 292 with Alzheimer's. There were 1,396 participants with diabetes.

By focusing on twins, researchers removed many genetic differences, as well as differences in poverty level, at least during childhood.

"Twins provide naturally matched pairs, in which confounding factors such as genetics and childhood environment may be removed when comparisons are made between twins," co-author Margaret Gatz, PhD, professor of psychology, gerontology, and preventive medicine at the University of Southern California and foreign adjunct professor of medical epidemiology and biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet, says in a news release.

The study is published in the January issue of the journal Diabetes.
By Caroline Wilbert
Reviewed by Louise Chang
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[janlave]

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[whitemale08]

Why should we be surprised by anything these global eugenisists say?

They are the very ones that work as scientists for Big Food companies and Big Pharma who unwittingly find different ways that synthetic plastics and petroleum by-products can be used to replace most of our food supply to turn a profit.

They know that these synthetic food materials (not ingredients) cause diabetes and a host of other diseases but that''s the point.

That creates another market in the so-called health care industry and sterilizes humans in the process aiding their population-reduction programs.

It''s sick folks,

These oligarchs like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans and others are all trying to create a Brave New World where they are the only humans that remain while the rest of us are killed off and make up a small remnant species of human-animal cloned hybrids that will roam the earth as beasts in a life of serfdom and worshipfull pentative to the oligarchs and so-called monarchies of Europe who wish to call themselves Pharoahs and God-kings.

It''s sick folks and you better open your eyes and see where this world is headed before it''s too late!

[sarah1se11]

This is very interesting, my step father found out he had diabetes in his early 40s. His aunt had diabetes as well and she lived until she was 89. Her memory did not seem to go at all however I''m not to sure when she was diagnosed.