• A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers in Baltimore analyzed the association between prediabetes and dementia.
• Their findings did not show an overall association between prediabetes and dementia risk, but they did find that developing type 2 diabetes was associated with dementia.
• Additionally, the scientists learned that the earlier someone develops type 2 diabetes can increase dementia risk.

By Erika Watts on May 26, 2023 — Fact checked by Alexandra Sanfins, Ph.D.

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