Neurology

More aggressive screening and treatment is needed in children with type 2 diabetes to prevent complications as they get older.

For older people with diabetes, the condition does not increase the likelihood that they’ll develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report in the medical journal Neurology.

Acording to a report in the November issue of Diabetes Care, Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) given orally improves symptoms in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy.

If French scientists are to be believed being obese is linked to a decline in a person’s cognitive function.

Having a stroke is bad enough. But having another one after surviving the first one is especially bad, more than doubling a person’s risk of dying in the next two years, a new study finds.

Awareness and better control of postprandial glucose can help to prevent declining cognitive function.

Many kidney failure patients are increasing their chance of nerve damage in their legs and feet by simply having too much potassium in their diet.

There is no strong relationship between depression in elderly patients with diabetes and the degree to which they control their blood sugar levels, researchers report.

Even a short treatment period can have an effect on neuropathic symptoms.

In patients with diabetes, nerve fiber damage that causes diabetic neuropathy is irreversible.