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Diet quality in midlife is not associated with subsequent dementia risk

Diet Quality in Midlife Not Linked to Later Risk for Dementia

No significant difference in incidence rates for dementia according to measures of diet quality
Predictors of neurodegeneration from idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder have been identified

Conversion From Sleep Disorder to Neurodegeneration Studied

Predictors include abnormal quantitative motor testing, MCI, olfactory deficit, motor symptoms
Candesartan plus hydrochlorothiazide

Lowering BP, Lipids in Healthy Elderly Has No Cognitive Effect

Candesartan/hydrochlorothiazide, rosuvastatin, combination therapy do not affect cognitive decline
Midlife cognitive and physical activity is associated with a reduced risk for dementia and dementia subtypes

Midlife Cognitive, Physical Activity May Cut Dementia Risk

Cognitive activity in midlife linked to reduced risks for total dementia, Alzheimer disease
American football players frequently have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)

Study Looks at Pathology of CTE in American Football Players

CTE-related ptau pathology evolves according to age; CTE frequency higher in professional football players
Midlife systemic inflammation is associated with cognitive decline

Midlife Systemic Inflammation Linked to Later Cognitive Decline

Individuals with a midlife inflammation composite score in top quartile had 7.8 percent steeper decline
Education is associated with global cognition but not with the rate of cognitive change in older adults

Education Not Tied to Rate of Cognitive Change in Seniors

Education was not associated with onset, rate of accelerated decline before dementia diagnosis
Trazodone is not associated with a reduced risk for dementia compared with other antidepressants at the prodromal stage of disease

Trazodone Not Associated With Reduced Risk for Dementia

Study refutes animal studies suggesting trazodone delays dementia in patients at prodromal stage
In the United Kingdom

Ethnic Differences Seen at Time of Dementia Diagnosis in U.K.

Asian and black patients younger at diagnosis, have lower cognitive scores than white patients
For older men

Hearing Loss Linked to Subjective Cognitive Function Decline

Findings seen in older men; risk for SCF decline also up for men with severe hearing loss using hearing aids