Diabetes Prevention in Midlife Helps Protect Aging Brain

60-Second Health

Dec 3, 20142:19Religion & Spirituality

People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports

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