Healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults residing in 14 European countries.

Nat Commun · 2024 · PMC11211489 · PMID 38937442

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.062so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Participants reporting smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, less-than-weekly MVPA, and weekly social contact declined −0.09 SD (−0.19 to 0.00) more over 10 years than the reference lifestyle, and those with weekly MVPA declined −0.08 (−0.18 to 0.02) more; these differences did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.062 and p = 0.117 respectively).

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