Summary: Researchers report a drug used to treat diabetes may be successful at treating Alzheimer’s disease also.

Source: University of Aberdeen.

Drugs used to treat diabetes could also be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease, and vice versa, according to new research from the University.

This is also the first study of its kind to show that Alzheimer’s disease can lead to diabetes, as opposed to diabetes occurring first as was previously thought.

The study reports that Alzheimer’s Disease and type 2 diabetes are so closely related that drugs currently used to control glucose levels in diabetes may also alleviate the symptoms and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

The paper, published in the journal Diabetologia, found for the first time that dementia-related complications within the brain can also lead to changes in glucose handling and ultimately diabetes. This is contrary to what was previously thought – that diabetes begins with a…