TREATING type 2 diabetes could lower the risk of dementia. When researchers looked at the effects of diabetes drugs in nearly 300,000 type 2 patients aged 60-plus, they found that, while 20.3 per cent developed dementia over 11 years, there was a 20 per cent lower risk in those who took diabetes medication.
The South Korean researchers, writing in the journal Diabetes Research And Clinical Practice, reported that treating type 2 with a combination of the drugs sulphonylurea, metformin and DPP4 was associated with a 63 per cent lower risk of dementia than treatment with sulphonylurea alone.
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