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Starting with a Cognitive Disadvantage

Federal Practitioner. 2009 September;26(9):E1
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By the time patients are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, they may already have begun to lose some cognitive function. Researchers from University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands say they found modest decrements in cognitive function among 183 patients aged 50 to 70 years, compared with 69 control patients matched for age, sex, and education level.