Key result
Healthy lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, a healthy diet, and avoidance of smoking and excessive alcohol, are associated with a reduced incidence and progression of cognitive decline and dementia.
Why the study?
Cognitive decline is a growing medical concern with no current cure, directing attention toward prevention through modifiable lifestyle factors.
Do healthy lifestyle factors prevent or reduce cognitive decline and dementia in the aging population?
Do healthy lifestyle factors prevent or reduce cognitive decline and dementia in the aging population?
Adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors is a crucial modifiable strategy to prevent or delay cognitive decline and dementia.
Supports lifestyle counseling in older adults; leaves open causal confirmation by randomized trials.
Cognitive decline is a growing medical concern. It includes age-related cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Dementia results in considerable dysfunction in life and is associated with an increase in mortality. Since there is no cure at this time, attention is being increasingly directed towards prevention. Lifestyle factors, such as smoking, alcoholism, physical inactivity, poor diet, improper sleep, and loneliness are repeatedly being recognized as modifiable factors that can reduce cognitive decline. This manuscript briefly reviews the lifestyle-cognition relationship.
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Shashi K. Agarwal (2021) conducted a review in Cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Lifestyle factors (smoking, alcohol, physical activity, diet, sleep, socialization) vs. Unhealthy lifestyle factors was evaluated on Cognitive decline and progression to dementia. Healthy lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, a healthy diet, and avoidance of smoking and excessive alcohol, are associated with a reduced incidence and progression of cognitive decline and dementia.
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