...Li Zhang; Xianqi Li; Charles D.A. Wolfe; Matthew D.L. O’Connell; Yanzhong Wang Introduction: Stroke and its recurrence and diabetes will increase in incidence as the population ages globally. This study explores the relationship between diabetes and stroke recurrence to understand if diabetes...

...Chih-Ho Chou; I-Jung Feng; Yi-Chen Chen; Jiann-Hwa Chen; Hung-Jung Lin; Jhi-Joung Wang; Chien-Chin Hsu; Chien-Cheng Huang Background: A hyperglycemic crisis episode (HCE) signifies poor control of diabetes and may increase the risk of dementia via microvascular and macrovascular injuries...

...Parul Bali; Navneet Kaur; Abha Tiwari; Sridhar Bammidi; Vivek Podder; Chandra Devi; Saurabh Kumar; Madhava Sai Sivapuram; Abdul Ghani; Shweta Modgil; Neeru Malik; Akshay Anand Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is widely spread in South Asian (ASEAN) and Indian sub-continent. The increasing...

... disease, and measures of cerebral atrophy including ventricular and sulcal grade and total brain volume. Clinical risk factors included measures of hypertension, diabetes, and high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Regression models adjusted for potential confounders were used...

...Elizabeth R. Mayeda; Mary N. Haan; John Neuhaus; Kristine Yaffe; David S. Knopman; A. Richey Sharrett; Michael E. Griswold; Thomas H. Mosley Background: Diabetes predicts late-life dementia, but the association with rate of cognitive decline is inconsistent and has rarely been examined in non-white...

...Kirsten Mehlig; Ingmar Skoog; Margda Waern; Junmei Miao Jonasson; Leif Lapidus; Cecilia Björkelund; Svante Östling; Lauren Lissner Background: There is evidence of a synergistic interaction between obesity and sedentary lifestyle with respect to diabetes. Although diabetes is a known risk factor...

... Diabetes Study (UKPDS) and the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) data. Methods: A retrospective study of all consecutive cases of NAION between 1990 and 2005. Patients were stratified into those with or without prior ischemic events and into diabetics and non-diabetics. Outcome measures...

...Kai-Chen Wang; Lin-Chung Woung; Ming-Tsu Tsai; Chih-Ching Liu; Ying-Hwa Su; Chung-Yi Li Background/Aims: Detailed information on the age- and sex-specific relationships between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is scarce. This study aims to prospectively investigate the age- and sex-specific...

...Olivia I. Okereke; Tobias Kurth; Michael N. Pollak; J. Michael Gaziano; Francine Grodstein Background: Type 2 diabetes has been associated with diminished late-life cognition; less is known about relations of insulin levels and insulin secretion to cognitive change among persons without diabetes...

..., 95% CI 1.6–15.2), temperature on admission (HR 1.5, 95% CI 1.1–2.1 per 1°C), age (HR 1.04, 95% CI 1.02–1.07 per year) and glucose levels on admission (HR 1.003, 95% CI 1.001–1.006 per 1 mg/dl). Age-adjusted proportions of diabetes and chronic heart failure were considerably higher in the deceased...

...Marieke van Oijen; Olivia I. Okereke; Jae Hee Kang; Michael N. Pollak; Frank B. Hu; Susan E. Hankinson; Francine Grodstein Background: Type 2 diabetes has been associated with an increased risk of dementia. To assess possible independent effects of insulin, we investigated the relation of insulin...

... glucose (fasting glucose ≥110 mg/dl) or diabetes (fasting glucose ≥126 mg/dl). Among 693 participants without neuropathy, who had fasting sugars measured, 441 (63.7%) had glucose dysmetabolism (p = 0.33). The mean HbA 1c levels in participants with sensory neuropathy (5.1 ± 1.02, n = 51) were...

...Mei Lin; Yue Chen; Ronald J. Sigal Objective: To determine the age and sex variations in the relationship between diabetes and stroke. Methods: This analysis was based on data from 61,327 Canadians ≧45 years of age who participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey in 2000–2001. Logistic...

... attacks (TIA) and nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation had a greater than 10-fold increased risk of stroke in the subsequent 30 months. Men, smokers, alcohol drinkers, overweight subjects, and diabetics, also had a relative risk greater than one, but this did not reach statistical significance. Hypertensive...

...Harris Pastides The occurrence of diabetes, hypertension, and diaphragmatic hernia was investigated in an institutionalized population of long-term epileptics. Review of medical records determined the prevalence ratio of diabetes to be about 1.6% and the prevalence of hypertension to be about 2.3...

...L.A.H. Hogenhuis; F. Clifford Rose The classifications of diabetic neuropathy are reviewed and a new one presented. 14 5 1985 © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 1985 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other...