The article mentions that this effect was seen in only the cohort taking one of two prevalent diabetes medications.
For your interpretation to be accurate, you’d need to also show that the other popular medicine doesn’t work for diabetes type 2 treatment.
FWIW, the last line of the article is a dismissal from a UK doctor saying that this would make the diabetes drug better than any existing Alzheimer treatments, and suggesting that there’s a confounding variable in the study instead.
"For your interpretation to be accurate, you’d need to also show that the other popular medicine doesn’t work for diabetes type 2 treatment."
This is not true. It's possible that there are multiple effects of type 2 diabetes, with multiple drugs that treat the main factor (sugar levels), but with a subset of the drugs affecting other factors (hormones, cellular activities, something else) that influence dementia.
I had read that too, but while those Alzheimer’s teams pivot over the next 10 years for their new research and drug approvals, the thing that treats insulin and glucose processing helps prevent diabetes and dementia
For your interpretation to be accurate, you’d need to also show that the other popular medicine doesn’t work for diabetes type 2 treatment.
FWIW, the last line of the article is a dismissal from a UK doctor saying that this would make the diabetes drug better than any existing Alzheimer treatments, and suggesting that there’s a confounding variable in the study instead.