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October 25, 2006 | Issue 88 |
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The Diabetes-Alzheimer's Link
At Pritikin, you learned that diabetes is a leading cause of many health-robbing ills like heart disease, stroke, blindness, and kidney failure. Now, more and more research is finding that type 2 diabetes may also rob many diabetics of their minds by raising the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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The latest research, from a long-term health survey called the Religious Orders Study, closely followed 825 Catholic nuns, priests, and brothers from the Midwest, all age 55 and older, for more than nine years. It found that those with type 2 diabetes had a 65% greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than those without diabetes.*
In 1994, at the start of the study, all were Alzheimer's-free, and 127 had diabetes. By the study's end, 151 had developed Alzheimer's - 35 of them had diabetes. Researchers at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center determined that diabetes not only increased risk of Alzheimer's but also that those diabetics who did not get Alzheimer's did in fact suffer other mental declines compared to nondiabetics, most notably, a reduced "perceptual speed," which the scientists defined as the speed with which the volunteers were able to detect similarities between a short string of numbers.
This new research underscores the need, for all sorts of reasons - from human suffering to bloated federal expenditures - to reverse America's diabetes epidemic. Indeed, the world faces a "devastating diabetes epidemic," scientists from the World Health Organization and the International Diabetes Foundation announced in May. Issuing a cry of alarm, the two health organizations stated that the number of diabetics worldwide would more than double from today's 171 million to 366 million by the year 2030.
In the U.S. alone, about 18 million people have diabetes, and government health officials recently reported that 41 Americans have "pre-diabetes" - that is, blood sugar that is high enough (100 mg/dl or more on a fasting blood glucose test) to put them on the verge of getting full-blown diabetes.
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