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  1. Age at surgical menopause influences cognitive decline and Alzheimer pathology in older women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2013-12-11 Prevention and risk

    Early age at surgical menopause was associated with cognitive decline and AD neuropathology.

  2. Environmental risk factors for REM sleep behavior disorder: a multicenter case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2012-06-27 Risk factors

    Smoking, head injury, pesticide exposure, and farming are potential risk factors for idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder.

  3. Olfaction and color vision identify impending neurodegeneration in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2011-01-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Olfaction and color vision identify early-stage synuclein-mediated neurodegenerative diseases.

  4. Substantia nigra tangles are related to gait impairment in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2006-01-01 Digital health tools

    NFTs in the substantia nigra are associated with gait impairment in older persons with and without dementia.

  5. Loss and atrophy of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Layer II of the entorhinal cortex contains the cells of origin for the perforant path, plays a critical role in memory processing, and consistently degenerates in end-stage Alzheimer's disease.

  6. Anthropometric Status, Dietary Diversity, and Diet Quality in Relation to Cognitive Performance in Older Turkish Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2026-08-12 Prevention and risk

    53.0% of the participants were in the group of possible mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  7. Network models of late life depression symptoms and cognitive impairments across time

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2025-02-02 Risk factors

    Across 3544 participants, ≥65 years of age, with no diagnosed dementia-related disorders, the depression symptom everything was an effort showed high expected influence across all time points.

  8. Modifiable dementia risk factors associated with objective and subjective cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Depression, socioeconomic status, hearing handicap, loneliness, education, smoking, tinnitus, little exercise, small social network, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension were all associated with impairments in at least one cognitive measure.

  9. Disentangling and quantifying the relative cognitive impact of concurrent mixed neurodegenerative pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica 2024-03-23 Brain tissue and pathology

    Neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change (ADNC), Lewy body disease (LBD), limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC), and cerebrovascular disease (CVD) frequently coexist, but little is known about the exact contribution of each pathology to cognitive decline and dementia in subjects with mixed pathologies.

  10. Optical Coherence Tomography Assessment of Macular Thickness in Alzheimer's Dementia with Different Neuropsychological Severities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of personalized medicine 2023-07-10 Brain scans and imaging

    This retrospective case-control study aimed to investigate associations between disease severity of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) and macular thickness.

  11. Impact of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on regional spontaneous brain activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-07-28 Prevention trials

    In the SoUth Korean study to PrEvent cognitive impaiRment and protect BRAIN health through lifestyle intervention in at-risk elderly people (SUPERBRAIN), we evaluated the impact of multidomain lifestyle intervention on regional homogeneity (ReHo) in resting-state functional brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.

  12. Perceived social isolation is correlated with brain structure and cognitive trajectory in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. GeroScience 2022-05-08 Risk factors

    Both objective and perceived social isolations were associated with future cognitive decline and increase risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  13. Brain pathology and cognitive scores prior to onset of late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2022-03 Risk factors

    In the incident depression group, there was a mild decline in cognitive scores from baseline to the visit before depression onset compared with the never-depressed group.

  14. Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Cognitive Decline: A Twin Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021-09-13 Genetics

    In cross-sectional analyses at baseline, there was no association between DNAm age acceleration and cognitive function scores.

  15. Low MoCA performances correlate with suicidal ideation in late-life depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2021-04-22 Risk factors

    Late-life depression remains an underdiagnosed clinical entity, mainly because the presence of cognitive impairment in the elderly leads clinicians to suspect dementia rather than depression.

  16. Blood biomarkers for dementia in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-04-09 Biomarkers

    T-tau, NfL, GFAP, and YKL-40 discriminated between diagnostic groups (receiver operating curve: 0.647-0.873).

  17. Cerebrovascular and Neurodegenerative Pathologies in Long-Term Stable Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Vascular contributions

    Alzheimer's disease pathology (Aβ plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy) was significantly higher in the dMCI group than the sMCI group.

  18. Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra 2020-11-16 Risk factors

    A difference between subjects with and without obesity and memory scores was shown by t tests.

  19. The Association Between Early Age-Related Hearing Loss and Brain β-Amyloid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Laryngoscope 2020-07-09 Risk factors

    The mean age ± standard deviation was 64.6 ± 3.5 years.

  20. Validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of a computerized, cognitive assessment test (Cognivue ® )

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. World journal of psychiatry 2020-01-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognivue ® scores ≤ 50 avoid misclassification of impairment, and scores ≥ 75 avoid misclassification of unimpairment.

  21. Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy and Distinct Longitudinal Profiles of Domain-specific Literacy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2020 Brain tissue and pathology

    Two distinct literacy profiles emerged. The first group (N=121, 44%) had higher level of literacy at baseline, slower decline and less variabilities over time.

  22. The Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project: Study Design and Methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2019-09-27 Caregiving

    Linking detailed HCAP cognitive assessments to the wealth of available longitudinal HRS data on cognition, health, biomarkers, genetics, health care utilization, informal care, and economic resources and behavior will provide unique and expanded opportunities to study cognitive impairment and dementia in a nationally representative US population-based sample.

  23. The Panama Aging Research Initiative Longitudinal Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. MEDICC review 2019 Biomarkers

    The Panama Aging Research Initiative is a cohort study of 423 adults aged ≥65 years recruited from an outpatient geriatric department of Panama's largest public hospital, the Social Security Fund's Dr Arnulfo Arias Madrid Hospital Complex (Complejo Hospitalario Dr Arnulfo Arias Madrid de la Caja de Seguro Social).

  24. Cohort Profile Update: The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2018-01-29 Genetics

    By wave, compared with those who remained in the LBC1921 study at Waves 1 to 5, participants who dropped out had: significantly lower older-age IQ scores at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = lower scores at Waves and at Waves 1 = and 2 = By wave, compared with those who remained in the LBC1936 study at Waves 1 to participants who dropped out had: significantly lower older-age IQ scores at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = lower scores at Wave 1 = Wave 2 and Wave 3 = lower at Wave 1 = Wave 2 = and Wave 3 and lower physical as at Wave 1 Wave 2 = and Wave 3 = and at Wave 1 = at each wave in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 are mean and standard for and for each wave sample = Wave 1 = Waves 1 and 2 = Waves 2 and 3 = Waves IQ from Moray House Test for age in at time of testing and to IQ is the was from to from the in 1 and at Wave 1. as of from the Wave 2 two participants who not Wave 1.

  25. Cognitive reserve and cortical thickness in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Brain imaging and behavior 2017-04 Risk factors

    This study examined whether cognitive reserve (CR) alters the relationship between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of cortical thickness and risk of progression from normal cognition to the onset of clinical symptoms associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

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