A new UW Health study suggests a possible link between high blood sugar and Alzheimer’s. The study published late last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology, is giving scientists a better understanding of how insulin resistance or per-diabetes changes the way the brain uses sugar.
“People who have more insulin resistance, the brain does not use as much sugar,” Lead Investigator, Dr. Barbara Bendlin, associate professor of medicine, said of the study’s findings.