In a breakthrough study done by researchers from India, it has been confirmed that diabetes and hypertension together can cause dementia. When a person suffers from diabetes and hypertension, depression or seizures, his hippocampus size shrinks affecting his ability to remember things. The healthy controls had a larger Hippocampus as compared to people with Diabetes and Hypertension. The size of a healthy male hippocampus is between 2.7±0.5 cubic centimeters and with this the other patient's organ sizes were compared. But doctors say that with controlled diabetes and hypertension, over a period of five years at least, there is a possibility that Hippocampal atrophy can reverse.

Source: dna May 07, 2018 00:22 UTC