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|Articles|April 23, 2018

Midlife Cardiovascular Fitness and Dementia in Women

Author(s)Bobby Lazzara, MD

It looks like research is starting to support exercise as a reliable strategy to prevent dementia.

RESEARCH UPDATE

A study of over 1400 women over a 44-year follow up looked at the effect of midlife cardiovascular fitness and the risk of subsequent dementia.

HÃ¶rder and colleagues found that a high-fitness level, determined by a maximal ergometer cycling test, delayed age at dementia by 9.5 years, and time to dementia onset by 5 years, when compared with a medium fitness level.

It looks like research is starting to support exercise as a reliable strategy to prevent dementia.

Reference

1. HÃ¶rder H, Johansson L, Guo X, et al. Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia: A 44-year longitudinal population study in women. Neurology. 2018;90:e1298-e1305.

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