It is well known that having type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of dementia, but a large observational study comparing over 370,000 people with type 2 diabetes with nearly 2 million matched controls over an average of 7 years, now suggests that the risk is highest for vascular dementia and among individuals with poor blood sugar control.
The findings, being presented at The Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, indicate that individuals with type 2 diabetes were a third (36%) more likely to develop vascular dementia and were 9% more likely to be diagnosed…
