Glucose fluctuations in T1DM can impair cognition, study shows
Seven clinical characteristics, including age and fatigue, predict individual differences in cognitive vulnerability to fluctuations, researchers say.
For patients with type 1 diabetes, cognitive processing speed is vulnerable to fluctuations in glucose, according to a US study in npj Digital Medicine.
Researchers from McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, used advances in continuous glucose monitoring and cognitive ecological momentary assessment to characterise dynamic, within-person associations between glucose and cognition.