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Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Comorbidities in Alzheimers Disease

Johansson, M.

2021-04-25 neurology
10.1101/2021.04.23.21255980 medRxiv
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Alzheimers disease affects 50 million people worldwide and just like any modern lifestyle disease, it is steadily increasing. Unfortunately, a cure has not yet been found, despite decades of research. The pathophysiology of Alzheimers disease is extraordinarily complex and involves many different factors. Despite it being a protein misfolding disease, a lot of evidence currently point to insulin resistance, impaired glucose metabolism and comorbidities with other metabolic disorders such as obesity, elevated blood lipids, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as a potential root cause. Genetics aside, it seems like poor metabolic functioning affects the brain and central nervous system a great deal: affecting mood, behaviour, and cognitive performance. Even mood disorders are interlinked with metabolic disorders and increase the risk for Alzheimers disease later in life. This is a summary of objectively chosen original research articles, published between 2011-2021 and with insulin resistance as the main objective for cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease.

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