Endokrinologie und Diabetesforschung

Reviewing the literature on the interrelationship between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease

Mai Xurong

Alzheimer's disease is an age-related degenerative disease of the central nervous system with progressive cognitive impairment and memory impairment. It can be divided into two types: familial hereditary and sporadic. The latter is more, its pathogenesis is unknown, and may be the result of multiple factor interaction. In recent years, people pay more and more attention to the relationship between type 2 diabetes and ad. there have been many reports about learning, memory dysfunction and cognitive impairment in diabetic patients. It is believed that there is a significant correlation between diabetic patients and cognitive impairment. Diabetes can improve the risk of vascular dementia and AD. Some scholars think that AD may be another form of diabetes, and even suggest that ad be called "type 3 diabetes". This article reviews the relationship between them and their possible pathogenesis.