A mini-review on the current connections that might exist between Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes (can Alzheimer’s disease be considered a type 3 diabetes?)
A mini-review on the current connections that might exist between Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes (can Alzheimer’s disease be considered a type 3 diabetes?)

Summary/Abstract: Lately it was showed in Alzheimer's disease patients that although they did not have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, they tend to have the same abnormalities as in diabetes, leading to some preliminary theories that Alzheimer's disease could be considered in some conditions a type 3 diabetes. Finding that patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes have deposits of beta-amyloid proteins in the pancreas, deposits that resemble those in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, also increased the interest in this direction of research. Thus, in this review we aimed to draw attention to the commune characteristics of Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and to highlight the link between diabetes and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (can Alzheimer’s disease be considered a type 3 diabetes?), as well as shortly introducing the relevance of zebrafish studies in this research context.

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