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  1. Between Dec 8, 2009, and Dec 23, 2011, we randomly allocated 278 patients to treatment: 133 to placebo and 145 to idalopirdine. 132 patients in the placebo group and 140 in the experimental group were included in the final analysis.

  2. Effect of Glucagon-Like-Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RA) on Neuropsychiatric Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Clinical therapeutics 2026-03-19 Drug development

    From 10,037 records, 82 studies were included.

  3. A randomized clinical trial of low-dose cannabis extract in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-10-29 Clinical trials

    BackgroundPreclinical and clinical evidence suggest that low-dose cannabinoids could ameliorate Alzheimer's disease (AD) signs and symptoms.

  4. Efficacy and APOE ε4-stratified risk of donanemab in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-09-01 Treatments

    BackgroundDonanemab, a monoclonal antibody targeting amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques, has shown the ability to reduce cerebral amyloid burden in early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  5. Long-acting exenatide does not prevent cognitive decline in mild cognitive impairment: a proof-of-concept clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of endocrinological investigation 2024-04-02 Drug development

    No significant between-group effects of exenatide on ADAS-Cog11 score (p = 0.17) were detected.

  6. A randomized placebo-controlled trial of nicotinamide riboside in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. GeroScience 2023-11-23 Genetics

    Nicotinamide riboside (NR) increases blood levels of NAD+, a cofactor central to energy metabolism, and improves brain function in some rodent models of neurodegeneration.

  7. Trial of Solanezumab in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2023-07-17 Brain scans and imaging

    Solanezumab, which targets monomeric amyloid in persons with elevated brain amyloid levels, did not slow cognitive decline as compared with placebo over a period of 240 weeks in persons with preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

  8. The risk-benefit profile of anti-Aβ monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unclear, especially concerning their safety and overall effects on AD progression and cognitive function.

  9. Newer glucose-lowering drugs and risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-02-23 Drug development

    Newer GLDs were associated with a decreased risk of all-cause dementia in people with T2D. Because of the observational nature and significant heterogeneity between studies, the results should be interpreted with caution.

  10. Effectiveness of KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: post hoc analyses from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-11-21 Clinical trials

    The muscarinic receptor agonist xanomeline improved cognition in phase 2 trials in Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

  11. Compared with placebo, the amino acid mixture did not improve NPI-12, MMSE, TMT-A and B or CDR scores.

  12. Systematic review of pharmacological interventions for people with Lewy body dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2022-02-02 Treatments

    We screened 18,884 papers and included 135 studies.

  13. Fosgonimeton and placebo were shown to be safe and well-tolerated across all doses.

  14. We developed an endophenotype disease module-based methodology for Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug repurposing and identified sildenafil as a potential disease risk modifier.

  15. Effect of Aspirin on All-Cause Mortality in the Healthy Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2018-09-16 How common it is

    Higher all-cause mortality was observed among apparently healthy older adults who received daily aspirin than among those who received placebo and was attributed primarily to cancer-related death.

  16. Sembragiline in Moderate Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase II Trial (MAyflOwer RoAD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017 Clinical trials

    No differences between treated groups and placebo in adverse events or in study completion.

  17. The prespecified primary analyses did not show any treatment benefit at either of the doses tested for the coprimary outcomes (change in ADAS-Cog score compared with control [n=354, 6·32, 95% CI 5·31-7·34]: 75 mg LMTM twice a day [n=257] -0·02, -1·60 to 1·56, p=0·9834, 125 mg LMTM twice a day [n=250] -0·43, -2·06 to 1·20, p=0·9323; change in ADCS-ADL score compared with control [-8·22, 95% CI -9·63 to -6·82]: 75 mg LMTM twice a day -0·93, -3·12 to 1·26, p=0·8659; 125 mg LMTM twice a day -0·34, -2·61 to 1·93, p=0·9479).

  18. EQ-5D utility scores averaged 0·03 (95% CI 0·01-0·05; p=0·0002) better with levodopa than with levodopa-sparing therapy; rates of dementia (hazard ratio [HR] 0·81, 95% CI 0·61-1·08, p=0·14), admissions to institutions (0·86, 0·63-1·18; p=0·4), and death (0·85, 0·69-1·06, p=0·17) were not significantly different, but the upper CIs precluded any substantial increase with levodopa compared with levodopa-sparing therapy. 179 (28%) of 632 patients allocated dopamine agonists and 104 (23%) of 460 patients allocated MAOBI discontinued allocated treatment because of side-effects compared with 11 (2%) of 528 patients allocated levodopa (p<0·0001).

  19. One hundred years of schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of the outcome literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1994-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Overall, less than half of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia have shown substantial clinical improvement after follow-up averaging nearly 6 years.

  20. A 30-week randomized controlled trial of high-dose tacrine in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The Tacrine Study Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA 1994-04-01 Clinical trials

    Tacrine produced statistically significant, dose-related improvements on objective performance-based tests, clinician- and caregiver-rated global evaluations, and measures of quality of life.

  21. Diabetes, antidiabetic medications and risk of dementia: A systematic umbrella review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 2023-10-23 Drug development

    Metformin, thiazolidinediones, pioglitazone, GLP1RAs and SGLT2is were associated with reduced risk of dementia.

  22. Group 3 showed less decrease in the SIB score at 12 and 24 weeks compared with group 1 (P < 0.05).

  23. A phase II randomized trial of sodium oligomannate in Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-14 Clinical trials

    Comparing with the placebo group (n = 83, change - 1.45), the ADAS-cog12 score change in the GV-971 600-mg group (n = 76) was - 1.39 (p = 0.89) and the GV-971 900-mg group (n = 83) was - 2.58 (p = 0.30).

  24. Impact of antidiabetic agents on dementia risk: A Bayesian network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Metabolism: clinical and experimental 2020-05-22 Drug development

    This analysis indicated that patients with type 2 diabetes under treatment with DPP-4 inhibitors presented with the lowest risk of dementia, followed by those treated with metformin and thiazolidinedione, while treatment with insulin was associated with the highest risk.

  25. Antihypertensive drugs decrease risk of Alzheimer disease: Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Neurology 2013-08-02 Drug development

    Diuretic, ARB, and ACE-I use was, in addition to and/or independently of mean systolic blood pressure, associated with reduced risk of AD dementia in participants with normal cognition, while only diuretic use was associated with reduced risk in participants with MCI.

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