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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Sixteen trials, including 11,402 participants (mean age 73.2 [±5.5] years; 62.3 % female) were examined.

  2. Adult-onset hearing loss and incident cognitive impairment and dementia - A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-05-23 Risk factors

    We identified fifty studies (N=1,548,754).

  3. Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Subgroup Analysis of the SUPERBRAIN-MEET Randomized Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-20 Prevention trials

    Of 300 randomized participants, 277 participants (mean age, 72.9 years; 69.3% female) were included in the modified intention-to-treat analysis (142 in the MLI group and 135 in the control group).

  4. Hearing Loss and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2021-07-08 Risk factors

    Fourteen cohorts including 726,900 participants were analyzed.

  5. Associations between vision impairment and eye diseases with dementia, dementia subtypes and cognitive impairment: An umbrella review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-10-05 Risk factors

    Vision impairment (VI) and eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma and cataract have been reported to be associated with cognitive impairment and dementia, however, to date, very little attempt has been made to collate and synthesizes such literature.

  6. Associations of inner retinal layers with risk of incident dementia: An individual participant data analysis of four prospective cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-08-08 Brain scans and imaging

    General baseline characteristics of the study population were mean (standard deviation) age, 58.1 (8.8) years; 47% women.

  7. Hearing Impairment, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 86 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2017-09-01 Risk factors

    The meta-analysis showed that hearing impairment is associated with a higher risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia among older adults.

  8. Computerised cognitive remediation to enhance mobility in older adults: a single-blind, single-centre, randomised trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2021-09-02 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Between March 1, 2016, and March 12, 2020, 383 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to the intervention or control group.

  9. Visual Impairment, Eye Diseases, and Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Risk factors

    As visual impairment, cataract, and diabetic retinopathy are associated with an increased likelihood of developing dementia, early diagnosis may help identify those at risk of dementia.

  10. Mechanisms of lower oesophageal sphincter incompetence in patients with symptomatic gastrooesophageal reflux

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Gut 1988-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Visually impaired individuals were more likely to develop incident dementia, with a progressively greater risk among those with worse visual acuity.

  11. Research Criteria for the Behavioral Variant of Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Data extraction and synthesis This analysis involved random-effects meta-analyses on group-level study results of clinical data and systematic review of the neuroimaging literature.

  12. Comparison of multiple interventions for older adults with Alzheimer disease or mild cognitive impairment: A PRISMA-compliant network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Medicine 2018-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    As the first NMA comparing different interventions for AD and MCI, our study suggests that PE and CCT might have a significant improvement in cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms respectively.

  13. Resting-state network dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-04-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Convergent evidence across the literature supports the use of resting-state connectivity as a biomarker of AD.

  14. Memory Complaints and Cognitive Decline: Data from the GUIDAGE Study1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Clinical trials

    1,307 patients with SCD and with CDR = 0 at baseline were included.

  15. Efficacy of different digital interventions in patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2025-05-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 57 articles were included in the review, including 3182 participants.

  16. Cognitive reserve in individuals with frontotemporal dementia: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2024-10-17 Risk factors

    As the literature related to cognitive reserve (CR) in individuals with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is only emerging, a clear consensus on the relationship among CR proxies, brain status, and clinical performance has not been reached.

  17. Hearing Screening for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Journal of audiology & otology 2024-07-09 Risk factors

    Electrophysiological and behavioral tests demonstrated strong correlation and accurate hearing impairment detection compared to PTA.

  18. Can Exercise Improve Cognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-01-24 Prevention trials

    Exercise interventions were performed 3.4 ± 1.4 days per week at moderate intensity (3.7 ± 0.6 metabolic equivalents) for 45.2 ± 17.0 minutes per session for 18.6 ± 10.0 weeks and consisted primarily of aerobic exercise (65%).

  19. Assessment of Plasma Amyloid-β42/40 and Cognitive Decline Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-12-01 Biomarkers

    In this study, low plasma Aβ42/40 was associated with more pronounced decline in cognitive function (measured by multiple outcomes) over time.

  20. A randomized feasibility pilot trial of hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Results from the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-06-21 Risk factors

    ACHIEVE-P sets the stage for the full-scale ACHIEVE trial (N = 850, recruitment beginning November 2017), the first randomized trial to determine efficacy of a best practices hearing (vs. successful aging) intervention on reducing cognitive decline in older adults with HL.

  21. Brain patterns and risk factors in the FINGER RCT multimodal lifestyle intervention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2025-09-24 Prevention trials

    Clusters with diffuse or frontal-predominant cortical thinning, but with more favourable vascular profiles, characterized by lower blood pressure and reduced obesity, showed significantly less cortical thinning (mean thickness, AD-signature, and resilience-signature regions; all p < 0.05) following the intervention.

  22. Associations among sleep quality, sleep duration, and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025-03 Risk factors

    In total, 30 studies were included comprising 14,997 subjects.

  23. The intervention was feasible and acceptable with the intended number of participants completing the study.

  24. Central autonomic network dysfunction and plasma Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-06-08 Biomarkers

    All autonomic networks were positively associated with Aβ42/40 ratio and remained so after adjustment for age, sex, and APOE4 carrier status.

  25. China Initiative for Multi-Domain Intervention (CHINA-IN-MUDI) to Prevent Cognitive Decline: Study Design and Progress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024 Prevention trials

    Screening commenced in July 2022. Currently, 1,965 participants have been randomized into lifestyle intervention (n = 772) and control groups (n = 1,193).

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