ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Associations of Depressive Symptoms and Cognition in the FINGER Trial: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomised Clinical Trial.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01041989 (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effect of Whole-Diet Interventions on Memory and Cognitive Function in Healthy Older Adults - A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Pooled it
- Short-Term Changes in Depressive Symptoms Among Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Following a Precision Medicine Intervention.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Brain health clinics - An evolving clinical pathway?The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Observational
- Associations of Depressive Symptoms with Subjective Cognitive Decline in Elderly People-A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the AgeWell.de-Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Depression and cognition are associated, but the role of depressive symptoms in lifestyle interventions to prevent dementia needs further study. We investigated the intervention effect on depressive symptoms and their associations with cognition in the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER; NCT01041989), a two-year multidomain lifestyle trial. One thousand two-hundred and sixty individuals (60-77 years) at risk for dementia were randomised into a multidomain intervention (diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular/metabolic risk monitoring) or control group (regular health advice). Depressive symptoms (Zung scale) and cognition (modified Neuropsychological Test Battery) were evaluated at baseline, 12, and 24 months. One thousand one-hundred and twenty-five participants had baseline Zung data. Mean Zung score decreased 0.73 (SD 5.6) points in the intervention and 0.36 (5.6) points in the control group, with nonsignificant between-group difference (group × time coefficient -0.006, 95% CI -0.019 to 0.007). Overall, higher baseline Zung score was associated with less improvement in global cognition (-0.140,
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