Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes link explained
We have all read the recent studies linking diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetics have an over 35% higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s then non-diabetics. That is a huge finding.
Now researchers have discovered why this occurs.
Neurobiology of Aging, investigators led by David R. Schubert, Ph.D., professor in the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, report that the blood vessels in the brain of young diabetic mice are damaged by the interaction of elevated blood glucose levels characteristic of diabetes and low levels of beta amyloid, a peptide that clumps to form the senile plaques that riddle the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
We all have small levels of amyloid circulating throughout our blood but in diabetics there is a toxic interaction between the amyloid and the high level of glucose that alters the blood vessel production.
via EurekAlert
Tags: alzheimers disease, amyloid, blood vessels, Diabetes
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