Prevention of Dementia: Focus on Lifestyle

The objective of this paper is to summarize current knowledge on the possible advantages of lifestyle interventions, with particular attention to physical fitness, cognitive activity, leisure and social activity as well as nutrition. There is a large amount of published papers providing partial evidence and asserting the need for immediate, appropriate preventive lifestyle measures against dementia and AD development. Nevertheless, there are currently great difficulties in drafting effective guidelines in this field. This depends mainly upon lack of randomized controlled trials assessing benefits versus risks of particular lifestyle interventions strategies. However, due to the rapid increase of dementia burden, lifestyle factors and their amelioration should be already made part of decision making in light of their health-maintaining effects while awaiting for results of well-designed large prospective cohort studies in dementia.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Effects of cyclophosphamide on pulmonary function in patients with scleroderma and interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and observational prospective cohort studies.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1158170.618084 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Ladislav Senolt ◽

Michal Tomcikq

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Interstitial Lung Disease ◽

Pulmonary Function ◽

Cohort Studies ◽

Randomized Controlled Trials ◽

Prospective Cohort ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Controlled Trials ◽

Prospective Cohort Studies ◽

Randomized Controlled

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The effectiveness of weight‐loss lifestyle interventions for improving fertility in women and men with overweight or obesity and infertility: A systematic review update of evidence from randomized controlled trials

Obesity Reviews ◽

10.1111/obr.13325 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Emma Hunter ◽

Alison Avenell ◽

Abha Maheshwari ◽

Gertraud Stadler ◽

Damian Best

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Weight Loss ◽

Randomized Controlled Trials ◽

Controlled Trials ◽

Lifestyle Interventions ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Overweight Or Obesity

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Active cutaneous warming systems to prevent intraoperative hypothermia: a systematic review

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/s0104-11692012000100024 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 183-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Vanessa de Brito Poveda ◽

Edson Zangiacomi Martinez ◽

Cristina Maria Galvão

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Decision Making ◽

Body Temperature ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Controlled Trials ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Circulating Water ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Intraoperative Hypothermia ◽

The Cost

This study analyzed the evidence available in the literature concerning the effectiveness of different active cutaneous warming systems to prevent intraoperative hypothermia. This is a systematic review with primary studies found in the following databases: CINAHL, EMBASE, Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials and Medline. The sample comprised 23 randomized controlled trials. There is evidence in the literature indicating that the circulating water garment system is the most effective in maintaining patient body temperature. These results can support nurses in the decision-making process concerning the implementation of effective measures to maintain normothermia, though the decision of health services concerning which system to choose should also take into account its cost-benefit status given the cost related to the acquisition of such systems.

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