10-year study finds that the higher the blood sugar level, the faster the cognitive decline over time — regardless of diabetic status

By SharpBrains | January 29, 2018

___ The Star­tling Link Between Sug­ar and Alzheimer’s (The Atlantic): “A lon­gi­tu­di­nal study, pub­lished Thurs­day in the jour­nal Dia­betolo­gia, fol­lowed 5,189 peo­ple over 10 years and found that peo­ple with high blood sug­ar had a faster rate of cog­ni­tive decline than those with nor­mal blood sugar—whether or not their blood-sug­­ar lev­el tech­ni­cal­ly made them diabetic.…

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The future of biosensors and nanotechnology: A conversation with Sonia Contera

By David Coleiro | March 27, 2013

Imag­ine a future where dia­betes is mon­i­tored and man­aged, not with fin­ger prick blood tests and reg­u­lar insulin injec­tions, but with a small sen­sor implant­ed under the skin that mon­i­tors blood sug­ar lev­els, releas­es insulin as need­ed and com­mu­ni­cates the details to a smart phone. Wel­come to the sub­atom­ic world of nan­otech­nol­o­gy. With devel­op­ments in…

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