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Brain Changes in Obese Kids With Diabetes Hinder Learning
EMAILby Denise Mann WebMD August 3, 2010 肥胖糖尿病患儿的大脑改变妨碍学习 Obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may undergo changes in their brains that affect their learning in school‚ new research suggests. 新的调查提出，肥胖的2型成人糖尿病患者，出现大脑改变，影响他们在学校的学习。 The study involved 18 obese children with type 2 diabetes and children who were obese but did not have diabetes or pre–diabetes. Children with diabetes performed worse on tests of memory‚ spelling‚ and overall intellectual functioning. The children also underwent MRI scans‚ which showed changes in the white matter of the brains of the children with diabetes. Experts do not yet know how type 2 diabetes affects children’s thinking abilities. Dr. Antonio Convit‚ professor of psychiatry and medicine at the New York University Langone Medical Center‚ notes that “we know the brain uses sugar as source of metabolism‚ and insulin resistance interferes with the body’s ability to get more juice or sugar into the brain.” Researchers will attempt to determine if the cognitive damage from diabetes can be reversed by treating insulin resistance. 对18个2型糖尿病儿童和无糖尿病或者糖尿病前期的儿童，进行调查。患糖尿病的儿童对记忆试验，拼读和所有的智力功能都较差。对这些儿童作了核磁共振MRI扫描，患糖尿病的儿童，大脑白质有改变。专家也不知道2型糖尿病如何影响儿童的思维能力。纽约医科大学岚宫医学中心教授Dr. Antonio Convit‚指出“我们知道大脑利用糖作为新陈代谢的资源。胰岛素抵抗，阻碍了身体获取更多的果汁或糖份进入大脑的能力。”研究人员将努力明确，通过治疗胰岛素抵抗，使糖尿病造成的认知损害能够逆转。 编译 对18个2型糖尿病儿童进行调查。记忆试验，拼读和所有的智力功能都较差，核磁共振MRI扫描，大脑白质有改变。专家认为，可能是胰岛素抵抗，阻碍了身体获取更多的果汁或糖份进入大脑的能力。通过治疗胰岛素抵抗，使糖尿病造成的认知损害能够逆转。 |
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