About The Study: This randomized clinical trial found that among older adults at risk of cognitive decline and dementia, a structured, higher-intensity intervention of regular moderate-to-high-intensity physical exercise, adherence to the MIND diet, cognitive challenge and social engagement, and cardiovascular health monitoring had a statistically significant greater benefit on global cognition compared with an unstructured, self-guided intervention.

Known as the US Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk (US POINTER) trial, this study was developed as a follow-up to the landmark 2015 Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER) trial, which demonstrated significant cognitive benefit after two years of multidomain intervention in older adults at elevated risk of Alzheimer disease and related dementias. Specifically, the POINTER trial aimed to compare the effects of two multimodal lifestyle interventions on global cognitive function – structured and unstructured – in at least 2,000 at-risk older adults.

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In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers used a unique dataset to show that patients with type 2 diabetes have significantly worse financial outcomes than other patients.Findings showed diabetes patients fared worse on all seven financial outcomes studied, including below-prime credit scores, medical and non-medical debt in collections, 60-plus-day delinquent debt, debt charge-offs, bankruptcy filings and foreclosure.