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7 stories tagged "dementia"
GSK Bankrolled the Study That Turned Its Shingles Vaccine Into a Dementia Headline
The academics who best isolated a shingles-vaccine effect on dementia used a natural experiment and no industry money. The study behind this month's headlines used a claims database and GlaxoSmithKline's checkbook.
Brain & AgingThe Vitamin D Trials That Found No Brain Benefit Never Tested This Dose
Fifty-four older adults with failing sleep and early memory loss, and the ones taking 5,000 IU of vitamin D a day scored 13 percent higher on a standard cognitive test. The major null trials never tested that dose.
Brain & AgingA Brain Clock Says Your Fourth Language Is Worth 13 Years. Nobody's Published the Proof.
The 13-years-younger figure comes from a conference talk with no paper behind it, and the sturdier study underneath still can't tell you whether the languages did anything at all.
Brain & AgingFor Decades They Treated This Stroke Like a Clog. The Arteries Were Actually Too Wide.
People with widened brain arteries were four times more likely to have had a lacunar stroke, the type doctors have treated for decades as if it were a clog.
Brain & AgingUltra-Processed Food Is Quietly Taxing Your Attention. The Mediterranean Salad Next to It Won't Pay the Bill.
A new Monash-led study finds ultra-processed foods track with worse attention and a higher dementia-risk score even after adjusting for Mediterranean diet quality. The biology of why is more interesting than the headlines admit.
Brain & AgingThe Shingles Vaccine Keeps Cutting Dementia Risk. The Reason May Not Be the Shingles.
Four big studies now tie the shingles vaccine to lower dementia risk. The most useful finding is that the same effect shows up with an RSV vaccine that shares its adjuvant.
Brain & AgingNitrate from spinach behaves nothing like nitrate from tap water. A 27-year cohort says the brain can tell.
54,804 Danes followed for a quarter-century: less dementia from vegetable nitrate, more from drinking water. The risk signal shows up at roughly one-ninth of what the US EPA still permits.