Interventions to prevent cognitive decline, dementia
"There is good cause for hope that in the next several years much more will be known about how to prevent cognitive decline and dementia, as more clinical trial results become available and more evidence emerges," said Alan I. Leshner, chair of the committee and CEO emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science. "Even though clinical trials have not conclusively supported the three interventions discussed in our report, the evidence is strong enough to suggest the public should at least have access to these results to help inform their decisions about how they can invest their time and resources to maintain brain health with aging." An earlier systematic review published in 2010 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and an associated "state of the science" conference at the National Institutes of Health had concluded that there was insufficient evidence to make recommendations about any interventions to prevent cogn...