Abstract

Cognitive health, and prevention of its decline to dementia, has risen in prominence with a corresponding exploration of modifiable risk factors to prevent a decline in cognitive health with age.

This commentary discusses a new Cochrane review that examines the effect of vitamin and mineral supplementation in maintaining cognitive health in cognitively healthy adults in mid- and late-life.

From a heterogeneous body of evidence, the quality of which ranged from very low to moderate, the review draws the conclusions of little or no benefit of supplements.

Citations

Smith, A. (2020). Can dietary supplements maintain cognition in mid- to late-life?: COMMENTARY ON… COCHRANE CORNER. BJPsych Advances, 26(1), 3-7.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2019.67

URI: https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/orka/title/can-dietary-supplements-maintain-cognition-in-mid-to-late-life/