{"id":17104,"date":"2020-01-29T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/physical-and-cognitive-activity-and-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:29:38","slug":"physical-and-cognitive-activity-and-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/physical-and-cognitive-activity-and-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical and cognitive activity and dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results of <strong>different longitudinal studies<\/strong> have been published <strong>on the possible protective effect that intellectual activity and physical exercise may have on cognitive functions<\/strong>. The results support the <strong>preventive effect<\/strong> of these activities, although there are also some studies that have not shown this to be the case. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recently published <strong>study conducted at the University of Gothenburg<\/strong> (Sweden) analyzed the results of the follow-up of a group of 800 women aged 38-54 years (mean age 47 years) from 1968 to 2012. At the time the study was initiated, cognitive (artistic, intellectual, manual, religious and social) and physical activities were assessed. In the following decades it became evident that 194 of the participants in this study developed dementia (194 cases)<a href=\"#_edn1\">[1].<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Analysis of the study results suggests that <strong>cognitive and physical activities, independently, are associated with a decreased risk of dementia<\/strong>. These results provide data on the importance that these activities performed in mid-life may have in the prevention of cognitive decline in older age.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Oriol Franch<br\/><\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> Najar J et al. Neurology 2019; 92: e1322-e1330.\ndoi:10.1212\/WNL.0000000000007021   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of different longitudinal studies have been published on the possible protective effect that intellectual activity and physical exercise may have on cognitive functions. The results support the preventive effect of these activities, although there are also some studies that have not shown this to be the case. A recently published study conducted at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,569],"tags":[785,635,678,810,665],"class_list":["post-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-health","category-clinical-neurology","tag-dementia","tag-dr-franch-en","tag-neurology-madrid","tag-physical-activity","tag-ruber-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17105,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions\/17105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}