Students lead breakthrough study on diabetes drugs and dementia risk

Two undergraduate medicine students at University of Galway have led a major study examining how cardioprotective glucose-lowering therapies — medications that lower blood sugar and reduce the risk of heart disease in people with diabetes — affect the risk of developing dementia.

The research has been published in JAMA Neurology.

The new study involved a systematic review and meta-analysis of 26 clinical trials involving more than 160,000 participants.

The researchers found that while most…

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