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Increasingly, scientists are looking toward other risk factors to identify preventive and therapeutic strategies. Much attention recently has focused on the metabolic syndrome (MetS), with a strong and growing body of research suggesting that metabolic disorders and obesity may play a role in the development of dementia.

The risk for developing both T2D and AD increases proportionately with age, and evidence shows that individuals with T2D have a nearly twofold higher risk of AD than nondiabetic individuals.
 
I'll refer you to my "friend" Stephanie Senneff again. Google her (I can never remember the link and I haven't saved it anywhere) and read her article about statins, cholesterol, the brain and Alzheimers. It's one of the main reasons I'm very reluctant to take statins - she has put enough doubt in my mind that I'm willing to go on with "not quite low enough" lipids.

Apparently some of the statins now have warnings about diabetes on the box (is that in the US?). To think I first went on to them, voluntarily, because I'd heard they helped protect against Alzheimer's!

I wish they'de hurry up and get it all sorted out!

Viv 8)
 
I concur... I still will not take them as the risks are worth it for now. I diet and exercise plus taking other my pills regularly. That will have to be enough. My cholesterol was OK last time anyway without them.
It is one of those things that could be a time bomb, or not. Once a decade or so of people taking them has recharged the databanks maybe something meaningful as regards correlations will emerge. But as ever it might be as confusing as it ever was.
For a DM with a touch of HT I can see why they want me to take them. However, I think they think I do not diet and exercise so they want to belt and braces all patients. My life, my choices.
There was another case in point this morning... "heavy" tea drinking has a correlation with a higher risk of prostate cancer. This is really cheering of a morning as I sup the first of maybe half a dozen through the day.... well, I have to because my Lisonopril is a also a diuretic. Durh... and I drink coffee... and wine... I am doomed! 8)
 
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