Abstract
In their recent article, Cukierman-Yaffe et al. (1) performed a cross-sectional study comparing the relationship of A1C and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels with performance on four cognitive tests of subjects from the Memory in Diabetes (MIND) substudy of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial. These authors showed that a chronic marker of hyperglycemia, A1C, was associated with significantly lower cognitive performance, whereas FPG did not have any effect. These findings extend those from previous reports regarding the progressive relationship between the degree of chronic hyperglycemia and cognitive dysfunction. However, over the last few years, postprandial hyperglycemia (PPG) has also been known to trigger cellular mechanisms leading …
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