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Article: Does diabetes speed up memory loss in Alzheimer's disease?(Report)
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- November 15, 2009
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Research has shown that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of memory loss in people who don't have Alzheimer's disease. But it hasn't been clear whether people with Alzheimer's disease and diabetes have more rapid memory loss than those who have Alzheimer's disease but no diabetes.
New research published in the October 27, 2009, print issue of Neurology[R], the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that those with both diseases actually have a slower rate of memory loss than people who had only Alzheimer's disease.
"This result was surprising," said study author Caroline Sanz, MD, of INSERM, the ...