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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. Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 89 out of 100. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders 2024-11-19 Risk factors

    Six prospective cohort studies with seven datasets, including 484,994 participants and a follow-up of 3.5 to 13.0 years, were included.

  2. Adherence to Mediterranean diet and health status: meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2008-09-11 Prevention and risk

    Greater adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a significant improvement in health status, as seen by a significant reduction in overall mortality (9%), mortality from cardiovascular diseases (9%), incidence of or mortality from cancer (6%), and incidence of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease (13%).

  3. Metformin-induced changes in the gut microbiome and plasma metabolome are associated with cognition in men

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Metabolism: clinical and experimental 2024-06-12 Drug development

    Several bacterial species belonging to the Proteobacteria (Escherichia coli) and Verrucomicrobia (Akkermansia muciniphila) phyla were positively associated with metformin treatment, while bacterial species belonging to the Firmicutes phylum (Romboutsia timonensis, Romboutsia ilealis) were negatively associated.

  4. Omega-3 fatty acid, carotenoid and vitamin E supplementation improves working memory in older adults: A randomised clinical trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2021-12-07 Clinical trials

    Following 24-month supplementation, individuals in the active group (n = 30; aged 69.03 ± 4.41 years; 56.7% female) recorded significantly fewer errors in working memory tasks than individuals receiving placebo (n = 30; aged 69.77 ± 3.74 years; 70% female) (point estimate effect sizes ranged 0.090-0.105).

  5. Computerized cognitive training enhances cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease by downregulating Ruminococcus-TMAO pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Journal of translational medicine 2025-10-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Seventy-four participants completed the study.

  6. Efficacy of Mediterranean diet for the prevention of neurological diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis featured in the Italian National Guidelines "La Dieta Mediterranea"

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 2025-10-11 Prevention and risk

    Forty-five studies involving over 730 000 participants were included.

  7. Gut microbiota in patients with Alzheimer's disease spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Aging 2022-01-14 Disease mechanisms

    Patients with AD spectrum demonstrated altered GM abundance, which was differentially mediated by countries and clinical stages.

  8. This double-blind randomized trial does not support the hypothesis that the use of soy protein supplement containing isoflavones improves cognitive function, bone mineral density, or plasma lipids in healthy postmenopausal women when started at the age of 60 years or later.

  9. The microbiota-gut-brain axis in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a scoping review of human studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-01 Disease mechanisms

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is projected to become the highest-burden neurological disorder globally.

  10. Associations of sugar intake, high-sugar dietary pattern, and the risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 210,832 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. BMC medicine 2024-07-18 Prevention and risk

    Increased absolute sugar intake (g/day) was significantly associated with a higher risk of all-cause dementia (HR = 1.003, [95%CI: 1.002-1.004], p < 0.001) and Alzheimer's disease (1.002, [1.001-1.004], 0.005).

  11. Effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists on neurological complications of diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders 2023-05-26 Drug development

    Emerging evidence suggests that treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) could be an interesting treatment strategy to reduce neurological complications such as stroke, cognitive impairment, and peripheral neuropathy.

  12. Effect of nutrition in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2023-05-04 Prevention and risk

    The results show that the western diet pattern is a risk factor for developing AD.

  13. Probiotic Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function and Mood with Changes in Gut Microbiota in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021-01-01 Clinical trials

    Probiotics have been proposed to ameliorate cognitive impairment and depressive disorder via the gut-brain axis in patients and experimental animal models.

  14. Blood-Brain Glucose Transfer in Alzheimer's disease: Effect of GLP-1 Analog Treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-12-13 Drug development

    There are fewer than normal glucose transporters at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. DHA supplementation improves cognitive function via enhancing Aβ-mediated autophagy in Chinese elderly with mild cognitive impairment: a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-11-15 Biomarkers

    Daily oral DHA supplementation (2 g/day) for 24 months may improve cognitive function and change blood biomarker-related Aβ-mediated autophagy in people with MCI.

  16. Neuroprotective effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists in neurodegenerative Disorders: A Large-Scale Propensity-Matched cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. International immunopharmacology 2024-10-31 Drug development

    This study provides evidence that the effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists may extend beyond their known metabolic and cardioprotective benefits to include neuroprotection, associated with a decreased risk of developing various neurodegenerative disorders.

  17. Probiotic and selenium co-supplementation, and the effects on clinical, metabolic and genetic status in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2018-12-10 Clinical trials

    Overall, we found that probiotic and selenium co-supplementation for 12 weeks to patients with AD improved cognitive function and some metabolic profiles.

  18. Use of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Risk of Parkinson's Disease: Scandinavian Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 2026-04-17 Drug development

    Mean age was 65 years and 43% were female.

  19. Molecular Basis of Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-07-10 Risk factors

    Late-life depression (LLD), compared to depression at a young age, is more likely to have poor prognosis and high risk of progression to dementia.

  20. Effects of Anserine/Carnosine Supplementation on Mild Cognitive Impairment with APOE4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Nutrients 2019-07-17 Clinical trials

    The score improvement in the global Clinical Dementia Rating (gloCDR) was superior in the active group than placebo (p = 0.023).

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  22. GLP-1a: Going beyond Traditional Use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-01-10 Drug development

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a human incretin hormone derived from the proglucagon molecule.

  23. Japanese Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes 2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of Diabetes Investigation 2020-07-01 Drug development

    Of note, dramatic progress has been made in recent years in diabetes research and clinical practice, which includes approval of antidiabetic agents with novel mechanisms of action along with publication of clinical trial results with these drugs, and novel diagnostic and therapeutic devices, such as continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and sensor augmented pumps (SAP).

  24. Sleep epidemiology--a rapidly growing field

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011-12-01 Drug development

    First, sleep problems are associated with accidents and human errors.

  25. The intestinal microbiota as an ally in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Gut microbiome (Cambridge, England) 2023-06-19 Disease mechanisms

    The evolution of the understanding of the intestinal microbiota and its influence on our organism leverages it as a potential protagonist in therapies aimed at diseases that affect not only the intestine but also neural pathways and the central nervous system itself.

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