By Judy George
Source Medpagetoday
Intensive lifestyle changes improved cognitive outcomes in a phase II trial of early Alzheimer’s disease.
In Alzheimer’s patients with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia, scores on three measures of cognition and function were significantly better after a 20-week multimodal intervention compared with usual care, reported Dean Ornish, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and co-authors.
The intervention led to improvements on the Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGIC; P=0.001) and the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) global assessment (P=0.037), while the usual-care control group worsened on both measures, the researchers wrote in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapyopens in a new tab or window.
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