Characteristics of cognitive impairment in patients with metabolic syndrome / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To explore the characteristics of cognitive impairment and the characteristics of EEG changes in patients with metabolic syndrome. METHODS: Totally 96 patients hospitalized between May 2017 and May 2018 were included in this study.Among them, there were 34 patients with type 2 diabetes, 20 patients with hypertension, and 42 patients with metabolic syndrome.All of them completed the physical examination, laboratory tests, assessment of cognitive function scale and the P300 test. RESULTS: There were significant differences in blood glucose, HBA1c, systolic blood pressure, BMI, waist circumference and triglyceride among the three groups(P0.05).CONCLUSION: The cognitive impairment of patients with metabolic syndrome manifests itself in memory, execution, visual space, etc.,and has its own damage characteristics.The event-related potential is characterized by prolonged information processing time of the prefrontal lobe and reduced processing capacity.