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Health
Nina Massey & Ketsuda Phoutinane

Dementia linked with diabetes as risk 'triples' in people diagnosed younger

The risk of dementia increases the younger people develop diabetes, new research has found.

Prediabetes is when blood sugar is high but has not developed into type 2 diabetes. Most people who go on to develop diabetes first pass through this stage of prediabetes.

There was a three times greater risk of dementia for those developing type 2 diabetes before the age of 60, according to the recent study published in the medical journal Diabetologia.

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