Physical activity, diet, and risk of Alzheimer disease.

By Nikolaos Scarmeas, José A. Luchsinger, N. Schupf, Adam M. Brickman, Stephanie A Cosentino, M. Tang, Yaakov Stern. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2009

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Association of Mediterranean diet with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, neutral): “[5] with longer duration of followup (5.”
Body mass index in midlife and late‐life as a risk factor for dementia: a meta‐analysis of prospective studies (2011, methodology): “Only one study controlled for diet or dietary components (40) despite the association of diet with weight and dementia (40).”
Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis (2014, background): “Sources: [28,33,43,46,78,82,86,88,93,95,101,103,104,133, 137,141,142,145,148,150,156,206,209,215,217,233,237,239, 242,250,251]: Notes: Only studies with available data points on incident AD were selected.”
Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease (2012, positive): “In a follow-up analysis, the Mediterranean diet was also associated with a reduced risk of developing mild cognitive impairment and of progression from mild cognitive impairment to AD (Scarmeas et al. 2009).”
Does physical activity prevent cognitive decline and dementia?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies (2014, background): “2009 [60] identify and control for a comprehensive list of variables in their study; however, a number of other studies included in the current review failed to adequately adjust their data for known confounders.”
Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases (2015, background): “…disease (Yoshitake et al., 1995; Laurin et al., 2001; Verghese et al., 2003; Abbott et al., 2004; Podewils et al., 2005; Rovio et al., 2005; Rovio et al., 2007; Ravaglia et al., 2008; Andel et al., 2008; Larson et al., 2006; Akbaraly et al., 2009; Scarmeas et al., 2009; Elwood et al., 2013).”