Diabetes has been implicated to be a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), but the underlying biological mechanisms that link the development of diabetes and AD are not fully understood. In this article, Sims-Robinson et al. summarize the mechanistic pathways that might link these two age-related diseases and discuss the possible points of intervention that future therapies could exploit to treat AD.
- Catrina Sims-Robinson
- Bhumsoo Kim
- Eva L. Feldman
