Gender‐ and age‐specific association of known type 2 diabetes mellitus on incident mild cognitive impairment five years later: Results from the population‐based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study

Martha Jokisch, Anna Lena Platzbecker, Janine Gronewold, Karl‐Heinz Jöckel, Susanne Moebus, Raimund Erbel, Sara Schramm, the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group · 2025

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Martha Jokisch and colleagues from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study published a 2025 analysis of whether type 2 diabetes predicts later mild cognitive impairment, and for whom. Diabetes is a known dementia risk factor, but its link to the milder stage has been reported inconsistently, with hints that sex and age matter.

The analysis used 1,467 participants who were cognitively healthy at the study's second exam and returned five years later for the third. Diabetes status was recorded at the start, and impairment at follow up was judged against age and education adjusted norms. Average age rose from about sixty three to sixty eight across the interval. By splitting results by sex and age band, the team tests where the diabetes signal is real and where it fades.

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CREATORMartha Jokisch, Anna Lena Platzbecker, Janine Gronewold, Karl‐Heinz Jöckel, Susanne Moebus, Raimund Erbel, Sara Schramm, the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11716436

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