A recent study has indicated that taking metformin, a common drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, has been linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. Researchers from Taiwan conducted a cohort study that involved 9,300 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Taiwan. The researchers followed up on the patients for a period of 12 years. Their findings indicate that the risk of devel

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen suggest that drugs used to treat diabetes can also be effective in treating Alzheimer’s disease, and vice versa. The study is also the first of its kind to show that Alzheimer’s disease can also lead to diabetes and not just the other way around, as most scientists previously thought. The findings were published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Ass

Numerous studies indicate that diabetes may have an effect on a patient’s mental health. Patients with diabetes are known to have a greater risk of developing dementia in later life than non-diabetics. But researchers are not yet sure how anti-diabetic drugs may affect or influence the increased dementia risk. A current study set out to investigate this issue. The results suggested that people with type 2 dia

It has been known already that diabetes increases the risk of people having a stroke or heart attack. It seems that those may not only be the ones that diabetics should worry about. A recent study indicates that diabetes may also increase a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. According to a new study conducted in Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, people with d