Diabetic Adults Have Higher Chance of Dementia By Depression

Adults who have diabetes and struggle with major depression might have a higher risk of getting dementia and the risk is doubled because of the depression. Studies confirm that Dementia can cause major problems with people who have Diabetes because it can change them.

Just having Diabetes by itself can put a patient at risk for having dementia but when the person also has depression then the chances double. Dementia declines the way a person might think and abilities with reasoning. These things that come with it include problems with basic math, living in the past and not in the now moment, memory loss, not being able to recognize people that are familiar and personality changes. Having Dementia and Diabetes can change a person’s life and the families. Everyone has to work together in order to help the person that has Dementia and they have to study on it because of the personality changes.

A lot of authors and Dr.Wayne Katon from the University of Washington got together to study this and see if depression and diabetes doubled the chance of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. It does confirm about the Dementia but more studies are still being conducted about Alzheimer’s disease.