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  1. Effects of Kami Guibi-tang in patients with mild cognitive impairment: study protocol for a phase III, randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMC complementary medicine and therapies 2022-12-02 Clinical trials

    This study aims to provide confirmatory evidence of the effect of the Korean herbal medicine, KGT, on improving cognitive function in patients with aMCI.

  2. Musical Activity During Life Is Associated With Multi-Domain Cognitive and Brain Benefits in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2022-08-25 Prevention trials

    Regular musical activity as a complex multimodal lifestyle activity is proposed to be protective against age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

  3. Association of Visual, Hearing, and Dual Sensory Impairment With Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-14 Risk factors

    Among 113,511 participants (mean age: 56.8 ± 8.09 years, female: 54.4%), a total number of 1,135 (1.00%) cases of incident dementia were identified during a median follow up period of 11.1 years [interquartile range (IQR): 10.9-11.4 years].

  4. Deep learning-based brain age prediction in normal aging and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-05-09 Digital health tools

    Brain aging is accompanied by patterns of functional and structural change.

  5. The brain structure and genetic mechanisms underlying the nonlinear association between sleep duration, cognition and mental health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-04-28 Genetics

    Sleep duration, psychiatric disorders and dementias are closely interconnected in older adults.

  6. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Correspondence Between Subjective Cognitive Ratings and Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2021-11-06 Disparities

    Blacks and Hispanics were more prone to falsely positive perceptions of their cognitive function in the presence of cognitive impairment than non-Hispanic Whites.

  7. Feasibility of Repeated Assessment of Cognitive Function in Older Adults Using a Wireless, Mobile, Dry-EEG Headset and Tablet-Based Games

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-06-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Access to affordable, objective and scalable biomarkers of brain function is needed to transform the healthcare burden of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.

  8. Choosing the right time granularity for analysis of digital biomarker trajectories

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2020-12-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We applied our procedure to real-world data which include longitudinal in-home monitored walking speed.

  9. Later-Onset Hypertension Is Associated With Higher Risk of Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2020-11-26 Risk factors

    To investigate the correlation between hypertension development and the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia in middle-aged and elderly people.

  10. Dual sensory impairment in older adults and risk of dementia from the GEM Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-07-07 Risk factors

    DSI was significantly associated with higher risk of all-cause dementia (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.86; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25-2.76) and Alzheimer's disease (HR = 2.12; 95% CI = 1.34-3.36).

  11. Convolutional neural networks for classification of Alzheimer's disease: Overview and reproducible evaluation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Medical image analysis 2020-05-01 Digital health tools

    Moreover, we found that more than half of the surveyed papers may have suffered from data leakage and thus reported biased performance.

  12. Obstructive sleep apnea, cognition and Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review integrating three decades of multidisciplinary research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2019-12-12 Risk factors

    Increasing evidence links cognitive-decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) to various sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

  13. Deep learning to detect Alzheimer's disease from neuroimaging: A systematic literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine 2019-11-27 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

  14. Secular trends in cognitive trajectories of diverse older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-10-28 Disparities

    Later birth year was associated with higher initial cognitive levels for Whites and Blacks, but not Hispanics.

  15. The Impact of Gender on Atrial Fibrillation Incidence and Progression to Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of cardiology 2018-08-03 Risk factors

    There are a paucity of data regarding the role of gender and atrial fibrillation (AF) on cognitive decline and incidence of dementia.

  16. Visual and hearing impairments are associated with cognitive decline in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Age and ageing 2018-07-01 Risk factors

    This study aims to determine whether single and dual sensory impairment (hearing and/or vision) are independently associated with cognitive decline among older adults and to describe cognitive trajectories according to their impairment pattern.

  17. Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of leukoaraiosis; a population based cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Endocrine journal 2018-04-10 Risk factors

    Metabolically healthy obese (MHO) individual is known to be defended from the metabolic complications of obesity.

  18. Hearing Loss and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Findings from the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2017-04-19 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is independently associated with prevalent dementia and incident MCI or dementia.

  19. Depression is linked to dementia in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Practitioner 2017-01 Risk factors

    Depression and dementia are both common conditions in older people, and they frequently occur together.

  20. Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer’s pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature Communications 2016-11-04 Brain scans and imaging

    There is considerable debate whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) originates in basal forebrain or entorhinal cortex.

  21. Trajectory of Cognitive Decline After Incident Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA 2015-07-01 Disparities

    Incident stroke was associated with an acute decline in cognitive function and also accelerated and persistent cognitive decline over 6 years.

  22. Diabetes mellitus and the risk of Alzheimer's disease: a nationwide population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. PloS one 2014-01-29 Costs and economics

    Newly diagnosed DM was associated with increased risk of AD.

  23. Gait speed in Parkinson disease correlates with cholinergic degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2013-09-27 Digital health tools

    Comorbid cortical cholinergic denervation is a more robust marker of slowing of gait in PD than nigrostriatal denervation alone.

  24. Prodromal autonomic symptoms and signs in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2013-03-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Pathologic staging systems suggest that autonomic dysfunction may be an early manifestation of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  25. Montreal cognitive assessment: validation study for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2013-01-01 Risk factors

    The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was recently proposed as a cognitive screening test for milder forms of cognitive impairment, having surpassed the well-known limitations of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

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