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TUESDAY, June 12, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Both patients with type 1 and patients with type 2 diabetes show overall worse cognition than people without diabetes, according to a study published online June 5 in Diabetes Care<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Gail Musen, Ph.D., from Harvard University in Boston, and colleagues compared cognition in 82 individuals with 50 or more years of type 1 diabetes (Medalists), 31 age-matched individuals with type 2 diabetes, and 30 age-matched control subjects without diabetes.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that, compared with control subjects, both individuals with type 1 diabetes and individuals with type 2 diabetes performed worse on immediate and delayed recall (P \u2264 0.002) and psychomotor speed in both hands (P \u2264 0.01), and showed a trend toward worse executive function (P = 0.05). Cardiovascular disease was associated with decreased executive function and proliferative diabetic retinopathy with slower psychomotor speed among Medalists.<\/p>\n
“Although both groups with diabetes showed similar deficit patterns, the underlying mechanisms may be different,” the authors write. “Now that patients with type 1 diabetes are living longer, efforts should be made to evaluate cognition and to identify modifying behaviors to slow decline.”<\/p>\n
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