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If you don’t have diabetes but you suffer from high blood sugar then you may be suffering memory loss. A new study has revealed that people who didn’t have type 2 diabetes but had blood sugar at the high end of the normal range performed worse on memory tests than those with lower blood sugar.

Germany researchers conducted study on 141 people with the average age 63. Only those participants were chosen who didn’t have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. The researchers found that the participants showed no signs of memory problems. Further the study participants took a series of memory tests and had their blood sugar tested. They also had brain scans to measure the size of the hippocampus area, which plays an important role in memory.

Researcher Agnes Flöel of Charité University Medicine in Berlin says she and her colleagues “correlated long-term blood-sugar levels with the number of words people could recall on a memory test.”

During the tests and further research, the team of scientists found that participants with higher long-term blood-sugar levels suffered memory loss as they were able to recall fewer words. Moreover, their hippocampus was also smaller in size. The findings suggested that even for people within the normal range of blood sugar, lowering their levels might be a possible way to prevent memory problems as they age.

 

The findings of the study were published in the medical journal Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology.

Meanwhile, the researchers also expressed need for higher and in-depth study on the issue as the current study is relatively small and doesn’t prove cause and effect. 

Control your glucose

Experts have suggested that glucose levels are key to understand many diseases including stroke, diabetes, brain diseases.

The risk of dementia is higher in people with diabetes. Moreover, the elevated glucose impacts brain function and recovery in people following a stroke.

When something goes wrong with the body’s ability to regulate glucose levels in the blood, the brain is not able work as well as it should, says Keith Fargo of the Alzheimer’s Association.

If glucose is not functioning properly, it can affect brain function and brain health over the long-term, says Rachel Whitmer, a senior research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.

Your glucose level is determined by a combination of “genetics, diet and hormonal response,” Ratner says. “For those who have perfectly normal glucose metabolism, there is little they can do to change their level. The body controls glucose very tightly. The body is that good.”

If you want to keep your blood sugar in a healthy range, that doesn’t mean “you should never eat sugar,” he says. It means you should eat a healthy diet with a reasonable number of calories and a balanced intake of protein, fat and carbohydrates, he says.

Exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet can help keep blood sugar at a healthy level.