Can Type 2 Diabetes Increase Alzheimer’s?
CNN medical correspondent Judy Fortin talks with Dr. John Morris, an Alzheimer's disease expert at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Morris discusses a variety of issues related to Alzheimer's disease, including the age that people should be concerned about the condition's onset and the role of family history in the development of the disease. Morris also explains that health problems like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol may be linked to increasing people's risk of...
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