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Newest in this topic

  1. Interventions for Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Umbrella Review of Pharmacological and Lifestyle Strategies, Mechanisms, and Clinical Implications 2026-10-26
  2. Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability, Glycemic Status and the Risk of Dementia, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality: A UK Biobank Cohort Study 2026-10-13
  3. Plasma metabolomic profiling of frailty in older adults at risk of dementia 2026-10-08

Studies

304 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1984 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 21
  • medRxiv 16
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 14
  • Neurology 10
  • Nutrients 10

164 journals in all.

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  1. Causal inference in medical records and complementary systems pharmacology for metformin drug repurposing towards dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Nature communications 2022-12-10 Digital health tools

    Metformin, a diabetes drug with anti-aging cellular responses, has complex actions that may alter dementia onset.

  2. Causal association between systemic lupus erythematosus and the risk of dementia: A Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2022-12-08 Genetics

    No significant causal association was found between SLE and any type of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies.

  3. Brain vitamin D forms, cognitive decline, and neuropathology in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12-07 Prevention and risk

    The main form of vitamin D in all brain regions measured was 25(OH)D3 .

  4. 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.

  5. A pilot randomized controlled trial of WeiNaoKang (SaiLuoTong) in treating vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) 2022-11-22 Clinical trials

    Both groups were comparable in age (mean = 74 ± 7.2 years in the placebo group and 75 ± 7.4 in the intervention group) and in other demographics.

  6. Sex-specific biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease progression: Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-11-03 Biomarkers

    During 11 years of follow-up, women were 96% more likely than men to be diagnosed with clinical AD dementia after adjusting for age and education in the younger age group 60 to 70 years (n = 946; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08 to 3.56) although not in the older age group (70+) (n = 452; hazard ratio = 0.98; 95% CI, 0.68 to 1.53).

  7. Diet in the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease: Current Knowledge and Future Research Requirements

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2022-10-30 Prevention and risk

    Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disease that is becoming a major health problem in today's world due to the aging population.

  8. Diabetes and dementia: Clinical perspective, innovation, knowledge gaps

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of diabetes and its complications 2022-10-05 Risk factors

    The world faces a pandemic-level prevalence of type 2 diabetes.

  9. Influence of genetic and cardiometabolic risk factors in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2022-08-28 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder.

  10. Metformin and Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review with Respect to Time Related Biases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2022-08-03 Drug development

    Seventeen studies were identified: thirteen cohort studies, two case-control studies, and two nested case-control studies.

  11. Modifiable risk factors for incident dementia and cognitive impairment: An umbrella review of evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2022-07-19 Risk factors

    Modifiable risk factors identified in this study, especially those with high-level evidence, should be considered in dementia prevention.

  12. Metformin use and brain atrophy in nondemented elderly individuals with diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Experimental gerontology 2022-07-14 Drug development

    Among 157 subjects with a mean age of 71.8 (±7.7) included in this study, 76 individuals were stratified as metformin users.

  13. Development of the CogDrisk tool to assess risk factors for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-07-12 Risk factors

    Seventeen risk/protective factors met criteria for the algorithm to estimate risk for any dementia including age, sex, education, hypertension, midlife obesity, midlife high cholesterol, diabetes, insufficient physical activity, depression, traumatic brain injury, atrial fibrillation, smoking, social engagement, cognitive engagement, fish consumption (diet), stroke, and insomnia.

  14. Interactions Between Weight Loss and Plasma Neurodegenerative Markers for Determining Cognitive Decline Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-06-01 Biomarkers

    This study aimed to investigate the interaction between weight loss (WL) and plasma amyloid-β 42/40 (Aβ 42/40), neurofilament light chain (NfL), progranulin, and their association with cognitive decline over time among older adults.

  15. From Dementia to Eumentia: A New Approach to Dementia Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuroepidemiology 2022-05-25 Prevention trials

    Since environmental, socioeconomic, and individual risk factors contribute to dementia, we proposed a Comprehensive, Customized, Cost-effective APProach (the CCC-APP) implemented in actionable units with the focus on promoting brain health (eumentia).

  16. Modifiable Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Among Adults Aged ≥45 Years - United States, 2019

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2022-05-20 Risk factors

    Alzheimer disease,* the most common cause of dementia, affects an estimated 6.5 million persons aged ≥65 years in the United States (1).

  17. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident frailty: Results from a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Maturitas 2022-05-07 Prevention and risk

    176 and 131 participants developed incident frailty, as measured with the FI and TFI respectively.

  18. Personalized Management and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 2022-03-21 Risk factors

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a priority health problem with a high cost to society and a large consumption of medical and social resources.

  19. Neuropathology Studies of Dementia in US Persons other than Non-Hispanic Whites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Free neuropathology 2022-03-10 Disparities

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia are two of the most prevalent dementias that afflict the aging population in the United States (US).

  20. Identifying health conditions associated with Alzheimer's disease up to 15 years before diagnosis: an agnostic study of French and British health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Digital health 2022-03-01 Risk factors

    In both the British and French studies, ten health conditions were significantly positively associated with increased Alzheimer's disease risk, in a window of exposure from 2-10 years before Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, comprising major depressive disorder (UK OR 1·34, 95% CI 1·23-1·46; France OR 1·73, 1·57-1·91), anxiety (UK OR 1·36, 1·25-1·47; France OR 1·50, 1·36-1·65), reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders (UK OR 1·40, 1·24-1·59; France OR 1·83, 1·55-2·15), hearing loss (UK OR 1·19, 1·11-1·28; France OR 1·51, 1·21-1·89), constipation (UK OR 1·31, 1·22-1·41; France OR 1·59, 1·44-1·75), spondylosis (UK OR 1·26, 1·14-1·39; France OR 1·62, 1·44-1·81), abnormal weight loss (UK OR 1·47, 1·33-1·63; France OR 1·88, 1·56-2·26), malaise and fatigue (UK OR 1·23, 1·14-1·32; France OR 1·59, 1·46-1·73), memory loss (UK OR 7·63, 6·65-8·76; France OR 4·41, 3·07-6·34), and syncope and collapse (UK OR 1·23, 1·10-1·37; France OR 1·57, 1·26-1·96).

  21. Plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk of dementia: observational and genetic studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Cardiovascular research 2022-03-01 Biomarkers

    High plasma HDL cholesterol was observationally associated with increased risk of any dementia and Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that HDL cholesterol can be used as an easily accessible plasma biomarker for individual risk assessment.

  22. Association Between Egg Consumption and Dementia Risk in the EPIC-Spain Dementia Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in nutrition 2022-02-23 Prevention and risk

    A total of 774 incident dementia cases were diagnosed and validated, of which 518 were Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Population attributable fraction of modifiable risk factors for dementia in Chile

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-02-23 Risk factors

    The overall weighted PAF for modifiable risk factors was 45.8% (42.2% to 49.3%).

  24. Verbal Fluency in Metabolic Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-02-12 Risk factors

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) or otherwise insulin resistance (IR) is described as a cluster of several commonly occurring disorders, including abdominal obesity; lipids disorders, such as hypertriglyceridemia; and low levels of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), hypertension (≥130/85 mmHg), and carbohydrates disorders, such as impaired fasting glucose or diabetes mellitus type 2.

  25. Cardiometabolic and Vascular Disease Factors and Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Gerontology 2022-01-26 Risk factors

    Prevalent MCI and dementia, compared with normal cognition, was associated with higher proportions of persons with any CMVD, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation, or stroke.

  26. Metabolic Syndrome, Cognitive Impairment and the Role of Diet: A Narrative Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2022-01-13 Risk factors

    MetS and cognitive decline share common cardiometabolic pathways as MetS components can trigger cognitive impairment.

  27. An Argument for Simple Tests of Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Prevention trials

    Two potential disease-modifying approaches for dementia are being vigorously tested: the early targeting of the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and multi-domain lifestyle interventions to promote resilience to neuropathology.

  28. Avoiding Over-Reliance on Multi-Domain Interventions for Dementia Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Prevention trials

    Given the unknown therapeutic value of targeting Alzheimer's disease pathology and the discovery of robust risk factors for dementia, non-pharmacological risk reduction (RR) is increasingly offered as an alternative to targeting Alzheimer's disease pathology.

  29. Cardiovascular Risk Associated with Poorer Memory in Middle-Aged Adults from the Healthy Brain Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    Higher number of CVRF was associated with poorer attention (β= -0.042, p = 0.039) and memory (β= -0.080, p < 0.001), but not with subjective cognitive function.

  30. Risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia by sex and race/ethnicity: The Multiethnic Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12-09 Disparities

    The ASDIR for ADRD was higher for women (17.0 per 1000 person-years) than for men (15.3) and varied across African Americans (22.9 in women, 21.5 in men), Native Hawaiians (19.3, 19.4), Latinos (16.8, 14.7), Whites (16.4, 15.5), Japanese Americans (14.8, 13.8), and Filipinos (12.5, 9.7).

  31. 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).

  32. Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Current cardiology reports 2021-10-19 Risk factors

    RECENT FINDINGS: MetS was associated with lower domain-specific and global cognitive function in most cross-sectional studies, but findings from longitudinal studies are not consistent.

  33. Interactions between dietary patterns and genetic factors in relation to incident dementia among 70-year-olds

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. European journal of nutrition 2021-10-10 Prevention and risk

    There were interactions between the dietary patterns and APOE ε4 status in relation to incident dementia (interaction p value threshold of < 0.1), while no evidence of interactions were found between the dietary patterns and the AD-PRSs.

  34. Correlation between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology 2021-10-08 Risk factors

    The number of people suffering from dementia in the world is progressively increasing due to the expansion of the geriatric population in which this clinical condition is more frequent.

  35. Towards a Consensus on Alzheimer's Disease Comorbidity?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2021-09-24 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is often comorbid with other pathologies.

  36. The Mediterranean diet and health: a comprehensive overview

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2021-08-23 Risk factors

    The Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), one of the most studied and well-known dietary patterns worldwide, has been associated with a wide range of benefits for health.

  37. Healthy Aging-Nutrition Matters: Start Early and Screen Often

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 2021-07-01 Risk factors

    The amount of time spent in poor health at the end of life is increasing.

  38. Metabolic Syndrome: Is It Time to Add the Central Nervous System?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-06-30 Risk factors

    Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a set of cardio-metabolic risk factors that includes central obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemias.

  39. Bariatric surgery and cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2021-06-14 Risk factors

    Bariatric surgery has been shown to improve cognition in patients with severe obesity.

  40. Impact of Mediterranean Diet on Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nutrients 2021-06-12 Prevention and risk

    The average life expectancy of the world population has increased remarkably in the past 150 years and it is still increasing.

  41. Atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer's disease: A conundrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European journal of clinical investigation 2021-05-12 Risk factors

    During ageing, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and of cardiovascular disease CVD) increases.

  42. [Cognitive impairment in patients with cardiovascular risk: DECOG study]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Semergen 2021-04-15 Risk factors

    Data from a total of 458 patients were collected.

  43. Cardiovascular risk and midlife cognitive decline in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-12 Risk factors

    Diabetes, elevated fasting glucose, central obesity, and heart age greater than chronological age were associated with rate of decline in processing speed during midlife.

  44. Systematic identification of risk factors and drug repurposing options for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-03-03 Drug development

    There was strong evidence of a causal association between glioma risk, reduced trunk fat-free mass, lower education levels, lower intelligence and a higher risk of AD.

  45. Cholesterol profiles and incident cognitive decline among older adults: the Shanghai Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Age and ageing 2021-02-26 Risk factors

    among VRFs-free participants, TC (HR 0.62, 95%CI 0.40-0.95) and LDL-C (HR 0.47, 95%CI 0.28-0.80) were inversely associated with incident dementia, LDL-C was inversely associated with incident AD (HR 0.50, 95%CI 0.28-0.90).

  46. Cholesterol Metabolism in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular neurobiology 2021-01-07 Drug development

    Cholesterol is an indispensable component of the cell membrane and plays vital roles in critical physiological processes.

  47. Lack of association between acute stroke, post-stroke dementia, race, and β-amyloid status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2021-01-05 Disparities

    A total of 243 participants were enrolled, 81 of which had a recent ischemic stroke.

  48. Effect of a Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Estimated Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Prevention trials

    We investigated the effect of a multidomain lifestyle intervention on the risk of dementia estimated using the validated CAIDE risk score (post-hoc analysis).

  49. Glucose-Dementia Association Is Consistent Over Blood Pressure/Antihypertensive Groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk factors

    A total of 3,056 participants without diabetes treatment and 480 with diabetes treatment were included (mean age at baseline, 75.1 years; mean 7.5 years of follow-up).

  50. Interaction Between APOE Genotype and Diabetes in Longevity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Genetics

    Diabetes was associated with shorter lifespan in APOE3 carriers (n = 12,415, HR = 1.29, 95%CI = 1.17-1.42, p < 0.001) and APOE2 carriers (n = 2,390, HR = 1.37, 95%CI = 1.10-1.69, p = 0.016), while such associations were weaker and not significant in APOE4 carriers (n = 9,490, HR = 1.11, 95%CI = 0.99-1.24, p = 0.162).

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