Victoria R. Tennant

Diabetes and neurodegeneration in cognitively unimpaired older adults: implications for cognition.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with cognitive impairment and greater Alzheimer's disease risk, with cross-sectional studies suggesting that this is driven by neurodegeneration and vascular changes. Longitudinal studies, however, report similar rates of total brain atrophy over time in diabetic and non-diabetic...