Other Ills Shorten Lives With Alzheimer’s

Diabetes and high blood pressure can shorten the lives of people with Alzheimer’s disease, a new study finds. The study included 323 people with Alzheimer’s. People with high blood pressure were 2½ times as likely to have a shorter life as people without the condition. People with diabetes were 2 times as likely to have a shorter life. HealthDay News wrote about the study November 3. It was published in the journal Neurology.