Research Article Details

Article ID: A45439
PMID: 24582101
Source: Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am
Title: Relationships between diabetes and cognitive impairment.
Abstract: Epidemics of obesity, diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and cognitive impairment/Alzheimer disease have emerged over the past 3 to 4 decades. These diseases share in common target-organ insulin resistance with a constellation of molecular and biochemical abnormalities that lead to organ/tissue degeneration over time. This article discusses the fundamental links among these diseases and how peripheral organ insulin resistance diseases contribute to cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration. A future role of endocrinologists and diabetologists could be to provide integrative diagnostic and treatment approaches for this collection of diseases that seem to share pathophysiological and pathogenetic bases.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2013.09.006