Awareness of the risk factors and interventions for dementia among outpatients with diabetes.

Aims/introduction: As the prevalence of diabetes increases with age, the number of elderly patients with diabetes in Japan, a super-aged society, continues to increase. We conducted a survey to investigate the extent to which outpatients with diabetes recognize dementia as a complication of diabetes.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire was distributed among 777 patients with diabetes to investigate their awareness of dementia and its risk factors.

Decrease in serum C-reactive protein levels by troglitazone is associated with pretreatment insulin resistance, but independent of its effect on glycemia, in type 2 diabetic subjects.

Insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones (TZDs) decrease inflammatory markers such as high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) in sera in addition to their hypoglycemic effects. However, factors associated with the decrease in serum hsCRP concentrations are unclear. In the present study, an effect of troglitazone on serum hsCRP levels was investigated and compared with its effect on glycemia.