What is it about?
It is known that the aged persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus present a high risk for developing neurocognitive disorders and in order to explain this phenomenon we have proposed some potential risk factors. They can be involved in the causality patterns or can act as useful markers of the cerebrovascular lesions (or both) and for which there are strong proofs, including the poor glycemic control, hypoglycemia, microvascular diseases, inflammation or depression. For the macrovascular affections, the association with the cognitive disorders seems to devolve on the examined vascular system. It is put into discussion that for the next researches it is important to analyze how exactly the interrelations between the risk factors can contribute to cognitive disorders.
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Why is it important?
Diabetes Mellitus is an affection which is continuously rising, affecting millions worldwide. Identifying the potential risk factors in an early stage might prevent neurocognitive disorders.
Perspectives
Studying the relationship between diabetes and cognitive impairments led me to the conclusion that physicians should take into consideration all these potential risk factors, given their contribution in developing neurocognitive symptoms or disorders.
Andrei Bondar
Emergency Clinical County Hospital Oradea
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This page is a summary of: Potential Risk Factors of the Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Romanian Journal of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, September 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/rjdnmd-2018-0038.
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