Sugar elevates the risk for dementia. Watch two experts debate the research that shows this is true for normal, in addition to high, blood glucose levels. Get the facts on sugar.
In a video interview, Neurology Today Editor-in-chief Steven P. Ringel, MD, and Associate Editor Robert Holloway, MD, discuss the findings on a study of sugar and dementia. (Continued below...)
They discuss the implied dangers of sugar in the diet, but also offer some caveats. Among them, this was an association study. Also, the measures compared are cognitive screening every two years, as well as the fact that the main parameter was the average of all glucoses drawn over that time.
Many variables could be influencing these results, which is what makes this video enlightening.
Other factors include the presence of some ambiguity. For example, it's difficult to discriminate reliably among causes of dementia in this study.
Still, the study raises many questions about how neurologists could or should be managing diabetes as a comorbidity. Also, should clinicians be thinking of the brain as another organ with the potential for end organ damage? That might do a lot to lower the current rates of Alzheimer's.
Read the Sept. 19 Neurology Today story, "High Glucose Levels Associated with Increased Risk for Dementia": http://bit.ly/1e2W6Qb.
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