Gold Standard Trial Affirms Role of Diet, Exercise and Such to Prevent Dementia
(SLIDE FROM PRESS BRIEFING AT COPENHAGEN ALZHEIMER'S CONFERENCE)
In 2010, the National Institutes of Health held a conference to determine what measures, including behavioral steps like exercise and diet, could be taken to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. A report prepared specifically for that conference by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) made an assessment of the existing evidence for preventive measures. It determined that there was no intervention—whether jogging, the Mediterranean diet or a long list of other factors—for which there was sufficient proof to make any convincing recommendations to physicians or their patients
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