ArticleNeurobiology of aging2021
The relationship of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion to cerebral glucose metabolism and cognition in healthy middle-aged and older adults.
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- Relationships Between Brain Glucose Metabolism Patterns and Impaired Glycemic Status: A Systematic Review of FDG-PET Studies With a Focus on Alzheimer's Disease.Human brain mapping · 2025Pooled it
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a risk factor for cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open respiratory research · 2024Pooled it
- Associations of Prediabetes, Diabetes and Glucose-Related Markers With Cognition and Neuroimaging in a 2-Year Multidomain Lifestyle Randomised Controlled Trial.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2025Trial
- Gut bacterial metabolite imidazole propionate potentiates Alzheimer's disease pathology.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The association of insulin responses and insulin sensitivity with cognition in adults with pre-diabetes: The Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Insulin resistance (IR) has been related to reduced cerebral glucose metabolism in regions identified as hypometabolic in Alzheimer's clinical syndrome. Insulin secretion (IS) has been less studied than IR despite findings that decreased IS is an early indicator of future type 2 diabetes and a potential predictor of Alzheimer's clinical syndrome. We investigated whether higher IR and lower IS would be associated with greater age-related reductions in regional cerebral glucose metabolism and worse cognitive performance. Two-hour oral glucose tolerance testing and
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