People with diabetes and cognitive decline may be at higher risk of heart disease

Cognitive impairment is when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect everyday life

"Our study found that people with diabetes and other heart disease risk factors had lower scores on cognitive tests that predicted heart disease," study co-author McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada said Herzel C.

The researchers followed 8,772 people with type 2 diabetes in the REWIND trial for more than 5 years to assess the relationship between their cognitive function and future cardiovascular events

People with severe cognitive impairment were 1.

This research was funded by Eli Lilly and Company

Journal Reference :

1. Tali Cukierman-Yaffe, Hertzel C Gerstein, Jan Basile, M Angelyn Bethel, Ernesto G Cardona-Muñoz, Ignacio Conget, Gilles Dagenais, Edward Franek, Stephanie Hall, Nicolae Hancu, Petr Jansky, Mark Lakshmanan, Fernando Lanas, Lawrence A Leiter, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Valdis Pirags, Nana Pogosova, Jeffrey Probstfield, Purnima Rao-Melacini, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter J Raubenheimer, Matthew C Riddle, Lars Rydén, Jonathan E Shaw, Wayne HH Sheu, Theodora Temelkova-Kurktschiev.