Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia News

Study findings revealed a beneficial effect of physical activity on cognition and Alzheimer’s disease pathology in people with genetically driven autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease.

The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the U.S. will nearly double by 2060, according to a CDC press release.

A daily 100-mg dose of aspirin had no impact on disability-free survival among healthy elderly patients, and was linked to a higher rate of major hemorrhage, according to findings recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Adolescent girls with lower memory for words and adolescent boys with lower mechanical reasoning had higher odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

Behavioral activation that increased cognitive, physical, and social activity staved off cognitive decline in black patients with mild cognitive impairment better than social interaction, according to findings recently published in JAMA Neurology.

Older adults with type 1 diabetes with prolonged exposure to HbA1c at least 8% are at least twice as likely to develop dementia over 6 years vs. similar adults with only 10% of measurements in the same range, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Osteoporosis is associated with a 1.3-fold increase in the risk for dementia among men, and a 1.2-fold increase among women, according to findings published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia showed that people who had a recent stroke were more than twice as likely to develop dementia.

More than a quarter of the world’s adult population did not meet worldwide activity level standards in 2016, increasing their risk for type 2 diabetes, CVD, dementia and some cancers, according to findings recently published in The Lancet Global Health.

Cognitive decline is a distressing aspect of growing older for many people and it affects a large proportion of the aging population, according to a presentation by George Rebok, PhD, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, at Johns Hopkins Science Writers’ Boot Camp.