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Diabetes and elevated hemoglobin A1c levels are associated with brain hypometabolism but not amyloid accumulation.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine - 1 May 2014
Roberts Rosebud O, Knopman David S, Cha Ruth H, Mielke Michelle M, Pankratz V Shane, Boeve Bradley F, Kantarci Kejal, Geda Yonas E, Jack Clifford R, Petersen Ronald C, Lowe Val J
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UNLABELLED: Dysfunctional insulin signaling may affect brain metabolism or amyloid deposition. We investigated the associations of type 2 diabetes with amyloid accumulation measured using (11)C-Pittsburgh compound B ((11)C-PiB) and brain hypometabolism measured using (18)F-FDG PET. METHODS: We studied a sample of nondemented participants from the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging. All subjects underwent...
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