Diabetes and brain ageing . . . and other stories

ABSTRACT

Brain changes in people with type 1 diabetes People in middle age or older who have longstanding type 1 diabetes show structural differences in brain volume and white matter hyperintensities compared with a demographically similar control group, according to a magnetic resonance imaging study from North America. Sex differences in sudden cardiac death A review of autopsy reports, death certificates, discharge summaries, and nationwide health registries identified nearly 7000 cases of sudden cardiac death that had occurred in Denmark in 2010. Average age at the time of sudden cardiac death was 71 in men and 79 in women (Heart doi10.1136/heartjnl-2021-320300).