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The link between Dementia, Hypoglycemia and seizures Older individuals with type 2 diabetes who have been hospitalized with severe low blood sugar levels seem to have a greater risk of developing dementia, new research suggests.

An exaggerated rise in blood sugar following a meal. In people who don't have diabetes, the pancreas secretes some insulin all the time.

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April 17, 2009 -- New research that suggests a link between dangerously low blood sugar and dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes raises more questions about the strategy of aggressively treating diabetes patients to achieve tight glycemic control.

Both intensive oral combination therapy and antecedent hypoglycemia blunt the body's physiological defenses against later hypoglycemia in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, published in the March issue of the journal Diabetes.

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Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin.

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