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Physical Activity, Brain Volume, and Dementia Risk: The Framingham Study.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jun 2017
Tan Zaldy S, Spartano Nicole L, Beiser Alexa S, DeCarli Charles, Auerbach Sanford H, Vasan Ramachandran S, Seshadri Sudha
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BACKGROUND: Several longitudinal studies found an inverse relationship between levels of physical activity and cognitive decline, dementia, and/or Alzheimer's disease (AD), but results have been inconsistent. We followed an older, community-based cohort for over a decade to examine the association of physical activity with the risk of incident dementia and subclinical brain MRI markers of dementia. METHODS: The...
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