Studies have found that small molecules in fat "do evil", which leads to cognitive impairment in patients with diabetes

Coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, lower limb necrosis ... The complications brought by diabetes are painful. What is even more sad is that it can also induce cognitive disorders, such as mild cognitive damage and Alzheimer's disease.Studies have shown that in the past ten years, the proportion of cognitive disorders has become increasingly increasingly increasing in diabetic patients who have died in the past ten years, and controlling blood sugar cannot protect people's cognition.So, what causes the cognitive obstacles of diabetic patients, and urgently needs to find the "culprit".

On September 19, the reporter learned from Nanjing University that the team of Professor Bi Yan of the Drum Tower Hospital of the School of Medicine and Professor Zhang Chenyu and Professor Li Liang of the school published an article in the international authoritative academic journal "Cell Metabolic"An important discovery: "MIR-9-3P" biomolecular expression secreted by diabetic mice and diabetic patients with adipose tissue will lead to a reduction in the brain-based neurotrophic nutrition factor (BDNF) in the brain, thereby promoting brain nerve synovation damage, Increase the risk of cognitive dysfunction.

Science and Technology Daily reporter Jin Feng

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