Undiagnosed pre-diabetes highly prevalent in early Alzheimer's disease study
Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
When a neurologist began enrolling people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease into a nationwide study last year, he expected to find only a handful of participants with undiagnosed glucose intolerance, as all the patients were already under a doctor's care and those with known diabetes were excluded. But the scientists said he was "shocked" by how many study participants were found to have pre-diabetes -- a finding that is triggering important questions.