Why is Alzheimer’s disease called type 3 diabetes?
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Some research studies have indicated that Alzheimer’s disease should also be considered a type of diabetes, called type 3 diabetes. Alzheimer’s disease, which is the leading cause of dementia, is generated by insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factor dysfunction that happens mainly in the brain, originates from the term “type 3 diabetes” to propose this hypothesis. They used this term to describe people with type 2 diabetes and diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease dementia.
The classification of type 3 diabetes is highly debatable, and the medical association does not primarily embrace it as a clinical diagnosis. It shouldn’t be mixed up the above “type 3 diabetes” medical term with type 3c diabetes mellitus (also called T3cDM, pancreatogenic diabetes, and type 3c diabetes). The pancreas has both endocrine and exocrine glands and their specific functions. One of the hormones that beta-islet cells in the Islets of Langerhans, which is endocrine pancreas tissue, create and secrete is Insulin.