Risk factors for mild cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a transition between normal aging and dementia, is linked to higher dementia risk and potential reversibility. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), affecting over 537 million adults worldwide, increases susceptibility to MCI, with higher cognitive decline prevalence in diabetic populations. Previous meta-analyses focused on isolated factors, neglecting multidimensional interactions. This study synthesizes T2DM-MCI risk factors across clinical, lifestyle, and biochemical dimensions to support early identification and intervention of cognitive dysfunction in T2DM populations. Materials and Methods: This systematic review and meta-analysis, following PRISMA guidelines, searched five databases for articles published from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2024. Studies were screened based on predefined criteria, with data extracted independently by two researchers. Quality was assessed using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tools. Data were analyzed using RevMan software, with odds ratio (OR) and 95% CI as effect size measures. Heterogeneity was assessed using I² statistics, and subgroup analyses were conducted for factors with ≥10 studies. Results: 30 studies with 10,469 participants were included. Prevalence rate of MCI in T2DM was 44.1%. Significant associations were found between T2DM-MCI and age (OR = 1.06, P = 0.01), female sex (OR = 1.23, P = 0.05), diabetes duration (OR = 1.07, P = 0.03), education (OR = 0.82, P = 0.0001), smoking (OR = 1.44, P = 0.003), hypertension (OR = 2.25, P < 0.001), cardiovascular disease (CVD) (OR = 2.61, P < 0.001), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) (OR = 1.33, P = 0.001), and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (OR = 1.95, P = 0.02). Conclusion: This meta-analysis identifies advanced age (≥60 years), female sex, prolonged Diabetes duration (8-9 years), elevated HbA1c (>9%), and low education (≤6 years) as key predictors of MCI in T2DM, with significant dose-response relationships. Vascular comorbidities, insulin resistance, and inflammatory markers further exacerbate risks. Clinical priorities include rigorous glycemic control (HbA1c <7%), targeted cognitive screening for high-risk subgroups, and multidisciplinary care for patients with microvascular complications. However most of the studies included in this study come from Chinese people, so the generalization of the results may be limited. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero, identifier CRD420250637336.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".