Younger age at diabetes diagnosis linked to higher risk for developing dementia

By Michael Monostra
Adults who are diagnosed with diabetes at a younger age have an increased risk for developing dementia, but researchers found no association between prediabetes and dementia risk, according to study data published in Diabetologia.

“We believe delaying prediabetes progression may potentially have a broad public health impact,” Michael Fang, PhD, assistant scientist in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Healio. Read more in Healio.