Neurology

Middle-aged people with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to develop dementia in old age than people without diabetes.

Lifelong Obesity Linked to Brain Atrophy and Dementia Carrying too many extra pounds during your life may take its toll on your brain as well as your body, according to a new study.

Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds. Insulin resistance the culprit.

The hazard ratios for dementia and vascular dementia were even higher in patients taking oral antidiabetic agents.

Diabetes may be a previously unrecognized risk factor for the progression of parkinsonian-like signs in older persons.

The reduction in HbA1c of 1.1% was maintained to one year, with no reported weight gain.

Older women with diabetes or impaired fasting glucose tend to have worse cognitive function than those with normal blood sugar, and are at greater risk of cognitive decline over time.

93% of patients reported a positive clinic visit and said they would use the video telemedicine technology again in the future.

Skin patch helps with hand and foot pain. As reported in the Archives of Neurology, Dr. Richard L. Barbano, from the University of Rochester in New York, and colleagues tested the patch on 56 diabetic patients who had had nerve pain for longer than 3 months. A maximum of four …

People with diabetes are at increased risk of going on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.