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Alzheimer's disease ( AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [ 2] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [ 2][ 15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [ 1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
Type 3 diabetes is a proposed pathological linkage between Alzheimer's disease and certain features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. [1] Specifically, the term refers to a set of common biochemical and metabolic features seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, and in other tissues in diabetes; [1] [2] it may thus be considered a "brain-specific type of diabetes."
Recent research has found that people with diabetes are more susceptible to developing multiple co-occurring long-term conditions, which, in turn, can shorten life expectancy.
392 million (2015) [ 11] Type 2 diabetes ( T2D ), formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, is a form of diabetes mellitus that is characterized by high blood sugar, insulin resistance, and relative lack of insulin. [ 6] Common symptoms include increased thirst, frequent urination, fatigue and unexplained weight loss. [ 3]
The new study analyzed the dietary patterns of over 84,000 dementia-free adults older than age 60 with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and/or heart disease or stroke who were part of the UK Biobank ...
Aging-associated diseases. Age-specific SEER incidence rates, 2003–2007. An aging-associated disease (commonly termed age-related disease, ARD) is a disease that is most often seen with increasing frequency with increasing senescence. They are essentially complications of senescence, distinguished from the aging process itself because all ...
Dementia affects 5% of the population older than 65 and 20–40% of those older than 85. [266] Rates are slightly higher in women than men at ages 65 and greater. [ 266 ] The disease trajectory is varied and the median time from diagnosis to death depends strongly on age at diagnosis, from 6.7 years for people diagnosed aged 60–69 to 1.9 ...
Diabetes management. The term diabetes includes several different metabolic disorders that all, if left untreated, result in abnormally high concentrations of a sugar called glucose in the blood. Diabetes mellitus type 1 results when the pancreas no longer produces significant amounts of the hormone insulin, usually owing to the autoimmune ...