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In 17,972 US adults followed for up to 22 years, starting to volunteer was linked to slower cognitive decline associated with the APOE e4 Alzheimer's gene variant, with the clearest link at …
Read articleIn a Spanish cohort of 3,085 adults aged 65 and older followed up to 23 years, depressive symptoms were linked to a 1.76-times higher risk of Alzheimer's-coded death, and 2.23 times in women…
Read articleIn 2 cohorts of adults over 60, having both insomnia and anxiety was linked to double the odds of cognitive impairment and a 54% higher rate of new dementia. Either condition alone was not.
Read articleIn 2,349 dementia-free older adults in China, the highest quarter of estimated body fat had about half the rate of Alzheimer's-type MCI over about 2 years. The link is observational and not …
Read articleIn 144 Finnish adults, smell loss rose from healthy aging to MCI to Alzheimer's, and nasal smell-tissue cells from MCI and Alzheimer's donors showed lower NRF2 antioxidant gene activity in a…
Read articleIn 53 South Korean women with memory decline, higher Alzheimer's blood markers were linked to a thinner cortex only in those with 7+ years of schooling.
Read articleAmong Swedish memory-clinic patients without dementia, more stressful life events were linked to a spinal-fluid sign of Alzheimer’s amyloid buildup, but only in people with moderate-to-high …
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