Professor Elizabeth Selvin stated: "Diabetes onset at early age is most strongly associated to dementia.

"Thus, stopping or delaying the development of prediabetes to diabetes will considerably scale back the long run burden of dementia."

Such a conclusion was drawn from new research that involved 11,700 older people in the US who were tracked for over three decades.

Participants were members of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, aged 45 to 64 at the beginning of enrollment in North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota and Maryland.

Dementia incidence was seen to soar threefold among those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 60.

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If diabetes was diagnosed between 60 to 69 years then dementia incidence was 73 percent.

When diabetes was diagnosed between 70 to 79 years of age, then dementia incidence fell to 23 percent.

Professor Selvin said: "Pre-diabetes is related to dementia danger, however this danger is defined by the event of diabetes.

"Earlier age at diabetes onset was also associated with substantially greater risk of dementia.

"Taken collectively, our findings recommend that stopping pre-diabetes development, particularly in youthful people, could also be an vital strategy to scale back the dementia burden."

NHS England has carried out a diabetes prevention programme as kind 2 diabetes is "largely preventable".

There are currently two million people in England at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, hence the health body intervention.

The Healthier You campaign, as it's known as, involves at-risk groups being referred to a nine-month, evidence-based lifestyle change programme.

"The Healthier You programme is on the market each as a face-to-face group service and as a digital service," the NHS says.

"When referred into the programme, persons are free to decide on between the 2."

People on the programme are given help on consuming extra healthily, managing their weight and being extra bodily energetic.

These three components collectively have been confirmed to cut back an individual's danger of growing kind 2 diabetes.