Karen Anstey
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first heard Sep 2020
last heard Sep 2020
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Hello.
Yeah, so this trial focused on people who have either subjective cognitive decline or mild cognitive impairment.
So subjective cognitive decline is when you feel that your cognition is deteriorating or someone who knows you well thinks that it is
but we can't actually identify a change on clinical testing.
But it's been shown that that group are actually at increased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
So we targeted that group and then people who also had a cognitive impairment that was clinically accessible.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
So there was a control condition, which was an online educational program that we've developed and assessed in healthy middle-aged adults who are at risk of dementia.
And that is an educational module that tells you about dementia and risk factors.
We have an educational module about physical activity, one about diet and one about cognitive engagement.
And then the intervention group received the same module
But they also had a face-to-face session with an exercise physiologist and two follow-up appointments and a face-to-face session with a dietician who gave them very tailored dietary advice and followed them up as well.
And they were also given a subscription to a brain training package.
Yes, that's correct.
Systematic reviews have shown that the Mediterranean diet is associated with about a 30% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease.
So that was the diet that was selected for this intervention.
Well, for this trial, what we've done, we've now conducted a few of these body-brain-life trials, and we've got to the point now where we leave the exercise prescription to the exercise physiologist so that it can be tailored to the individual.
So we know from systematic review literature that meeting national guidelines is associated with a 35-year-old.
percent reduced risk of dementia which is 150 minutes a week you know the usual guidelines that we hear about but we also know it's very very difficult to to change habit and to get people who are inactive to start exercising so for this trial we left it to the exercise physiologist to design a personalized program which we thought was more appropriate and we think that that's that's the way to go in the future.
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