The latest findings are still not enough to recommend that everyone take multivitamins to maintain or improve memory, according to Peter Cohen, MD, a researcher and internal medicine physician at Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston.
Women aged 65 and over and men aged 60 and over were included in the new study. He also had no history of heart attack, stroke, or cancer (other than skin cancer) diagnosed in the two years before starting the program.
Overall, researchers found a fairly modest benefit from multivitamins compared to placebo on overall cognitive improvement over two years. Taking multivitamins had an effect on changes in episodic memory, but not on attention and executive functions.
But in a separate meta-analysis, experts found evidence of benefits of multivitamins for general cognition and episodic memory. Multivitamins were found to slow overall cognitive aging by about two years compared to placebo. But not everyone agrees with these conclusions. The truth is that a randomized trial with placebo and multivitamins needs to be done to declare the true benefits of multivitamins. This study needs to follow people for several years.
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Source: Ferra
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