Neurology

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.

Poorly controlled diabetes seems to cause cognitive problems in the elderly, a new study reports.

A loss that might explain why diabetics seem to have higher rates of cognitive impairment throughout life.