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Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in Alzheimer disease.
Diabetes - 1 Feb 2004
Janson Juliette, Laedtke Thomas, Parisi Joseph E, O'Brien Peter, Petersen Ronald C, Butler Peter C
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer disease and type 2 diabetes are characterized by increased prevalence with aging, a genetic predisposition, and comparable pathological features in the islet and brain (amyloid derived from amyloid beta protein in the brain in Alzheimer disease and islet amyloid derived from islet amyloid polypeptide in the pancreas in type 2 diabetes). Evidence is growing to link precursors of amyloid deposition in the...
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