Cognitive impairment. Diabetic retinopathy. “That individuals with the eye disease diabetic retinopathy were twice as likely to have mild cognitive impairment supports the theory that diabetes-related damage to blood vessels in the brain may contribute to the development of cognitive problems”
Rosebud O Roberts, MBChB, MS, and researchers from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, observed participants in a study from Olmsted County, Minnesota, who were aged 70 to 89 on Oct. 1, 2004. The researchers from Rochester, Minnesota, have indicated that persons with ‘diabetes-related damage to blood vessels in the brain may contribute to the development of cognitive problems.‘ The researchers have concluded: “Our findings suggest that diabetes mellitus duration and severity, as measured by t >>
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