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Maintaining cognitive health in elderly women
Aging Health, 10/09/09

Clifford A et al. – This review indicates that possible preventative activities and lifestyle changes undertaken to maintain cognitive health and prevent dementia in old age may be particularly important in middle age. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are the same as those for dementia, including its most common form, Alzheimer’s disease. Treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol and thyroid hormone deficiency, maintaining a normal weight, having a healthy diet and engaging in resistance or aerobic exercise can all potentially help to sustain cognitive health. Long–term treatment with estrogenic compounds (> 1 year) does not seem to be indicated and may actually confer risks for dementia in older women over the age of 65 years. The same may be the case for phytoestrogens. The possibility that folate can offset some of the negative effects of phytoestrogens merits more research in this area. Whether there is an optimum age to engage with these types of lifestyle behaviors is currently unclear and also requires additional research.

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