Cognitive Function Is Impaired in Patients with Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes, but Not Type 1 Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether cognitive function is impaired in early states of diabetes and to identify possible risk factors for cognitive impairment.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis within the German Diabetes Study included patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes within the first year after diagnosis or five years after study inclusion and metabolically healthy individuals. Participants underwent comprehensive metabolic phenotyping and testing of different domains of cognitive function. Linear regression models were used to compare cognition test outcomes and to test associations between cognitive function and possible influencing factors within the groups.

Results

In participants with recently diagnosed diabetes, verbal memory was poorer in patients with type 2 dia

SUBMITTER: van Gemert T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6109580 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature