Severe hypoglycaemia and late-life cognitive ability in older people with Type2 diabetes: The Edinburgh Type2 Diabetes Study

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-336

  Aung, P P ^a   Strachan, M W J ^b   Frier, B M ^a,c   Butcher, I ^a   Deary, I J ^a   Price, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Epidemiology; Hypoglycaemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MILL HILL VOCABULARY SCALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; VERBAL FLUENCY TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84857328010     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03505.x     Document Type: Article

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