Dementia Risk Boosted by Presence of Diabetes Along with Heart Disease - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Type 2 diabetes, heart diseases (ischemic heart disease, heart failure or atrial fibrillation) and stroke, so called cardiometabolic diseases, are main risk factors for dementia. The presence of more than one cardiometabolic disease accelerated the speed of c…

People with at least two of the diseasestype 2 diabetes and heart disease or stroke–have double the risk of developing dementia, according to a Karolinska Institute study Cardiometabolic multimorbidi… [+3692 chars]

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