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Early dementia signs from the body not the brain

Author
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Episode Link
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/blood-donation-dementia-risk-glp1-diabetes/104943692

When you have dementia, being diagnosed early can help you and your loved ones manage the condition. It could also aid in treatment.

A new study has found that in some cases, weight loss and lipid changes happened up to a decade before dementia was diagnosed.

Also, concerns that people of a higher weight with restrictive eating disorders could access GLP-1s if doctors aren’t screening patients appropriately.

And why type 1 diabetes is more commonly being diagnosed in adults, not just children and adolescents.

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