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JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 1452-1455Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2016.08.008
Keywords
GA/HbA1c ratio; Cognitive impairment; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Hypoglycemia; Hasegawa dementia scale-revised
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- Novo Nordisk Pharma
- Sanwa Kagaku Kenlcyusho
- Takeda
- Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
- Kowa
- MSD
- Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma
- Novartis
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma
- AstraZeneca
- Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd
- Chugai
- Daiichi Sanlcyo
- Sanofi
- Novo Nordisk
- Lilly
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Ono Pharma
- Daiichi Sankyo
- Pfizer
- Kissei Pharma
- Astellas
- Taisho Pharma
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Aims: The aim of this study was to search for factors influencing cognitive impairment and to clarify the association between the fluctuation of blood glucose levels and cognitive impairment in elderly Japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes. Methods: We recruited 88 relatively elderly subjects (>= 65 years old) with type 2 diabetes who were hospitalized in Kawasaki Medical School from January 2014 to December 2015. We evaluated the fluctuation of blood glucose levels with glycoalbumin (GA)/hemoglobin Alc (HbAlc) ratio, and estimated cognitive impairment with Hasegawa dementia scale-revised (HDS-R) score and mini mental state examination (MMSE) score. Results: Multivariate analyses showed that GA/HbAlc ratio and urinary albumin excretion, but not hypoglycemia, were independent determinant factors for cognitive impairment in elderly Japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes. Conclusions: The fluctuation of blood glucose levels per se is closely associated with cognitive impairment in elderly subjects with type 2 diabetes even when hypoglycemia is not accompanied. Since it is very easy to calculate GA/HbAlc ratio, we should check this ratio so that we can reduce the fluctuation of blood glucose levels especially in elderly subjects with type 2 diabetes. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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