Diabetes can cause your brain to SHRINK and age it by two years every decade, researchers warn

The London Daily Mail ^ | April 29, 2014 | Mark Prigg

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Type 2 diabetes could cause the brain to age by up to two years every decade a person has the disease, researchers have claimed.

It is the first time diabetes has been linked to a change in the size of the brain.

The study also found that, contrary to common clinical belief, diabetes may not be directly associated with small vessel ischemic disease, where the brain does not receive enough oxygenated blood.

'We found that patients having more severe diabetes had less brain tissue, suggesting brain atrophy,' said lead author R. Nick Bryan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

'They did not seem to have more vascular disease due to the direct effect of diabetes.'

According the American Diabetes Association (ADA), nearly 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1.9 million more are diagnosed with the disease each year.

Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes.

In type 2 diabetes, either the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin that is produced.

The ADA estimates that, based on current trends, as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes in the year 2050...

[Rannug]

It made my peter shrink too

[Ditter]

We didn’t need to know that, but the way my brain has been working lately, I’ll forget it in 1.....2.....3..... it’s gone! :)