Brain Changes in Obese Kids With Diabetes Hinder Learning
EMAILby Denise Mann WebMD August 3, 2010
肥胖糖尿病患兒的大腦改變妨礙學習
Obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may undergo changes in their brains that affect their learning in school‚ new research suggests.
新的調查提出，肥胖的2型成人糖尿病患者，出現大腦改變，影響他們在學校的學習。
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.
對18個2型糖尿病兒童和無糖尿病或者糖尿病前期的兒童，進行調查。患糖尿病的兒童對記憶試驗，拼讀和所有的智力功能都較差。對這些兒童作了核磁共振MRI掃描，患糖尿病的兒童，大腦白質有改變。專家也不知道2型糖尿病如何影響兒童的思維能力。紐約醫(yī)科大學嵐宮醫(yī)學中心教授Dr. Antonio Convit‚指出“我們知道大腦利用糖作為新陳代謝的資源。胰島素抵抗，阻礙了身體獲取更多的果汁或糖份進入大腦的能力。”研究人員將努力明確，通過治療胰島素抵抗，使糖尿病造成的認知損害能夠逆轉。

編譯
對18個2型糖尿病兒童進行調查。記憶試驗，拼讀和所有的智力功能都較差，核磁共振MRI掃描，大腦白質有改變。專家認為，可能是胰島素抵抗，阻礙了身體獲取更多的果汁或糖份進入大腦的能力。通過治療胰島素抵抗，使糖尿病造成的認知損害能夠逆轉。