Overweight and obesity may increase the risk of many health problems, including diabetes. It is also known that the diabetes type 2, latter affects memory.
Having diabetes in midlife was linked with a 19 percent greater … and an increased risk of memory and thinking problems later in life. American scientists at the “Johns Hopkins University” added that the risk might be higher among respondents that have a prediabetes, where their blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. Professional journal “Annals of Internal Medicine” adds that the risk to lose your memory would be the biggest in patients who have poorly controlled blood sugar.
A twenty-year study was based on data collected from about 13,000 respondents, who at the very beginning of the period of time were older than 48. Otherwise, earlier researches have already linked the presence of diabetes at a high risk for dementia.
