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ea0016p240 | Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | ECE2008

Cognitive dysfunction in diabetics: can we predict it, can we protect them?

Derkacz Marek , Marczewski Krzysztof

The aim of this work was to estimate chosen cognitive functions in diabetics and to investigate possible correlations between cognitive abilities and chosen clinical and biochemical parameters.The research was conducted among 122 patients with diabetes type 1 or 2 and 140 clinical healthy people. Cognitive tests such as MMSE test, Clock Drawing Test, Trial Making Test were applied.In almost 40% of examined diabetics, the significan...