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@ARTICLE{Beyer:279037,
author = {Beyer, Frauke and Kleine, Lukas and Zülke, Andrea and
Luppa, Melanie and Mildner, Toralf and Gensichen, Jochen and
Frese, Thomas and Czock, David and Wiese, Birgitt and
König, Hans-Helmut and Kaduszkiewicz, Hanna and Hoffmann,
Wolfgang and Thyrian, Jochen René and Villringer, Arno and
Riedel-Heller, Steffi and Witte, A Veronica},
title = {{E}xploring the effect of multi-modal intervention against
cognitive decline on atrophy and small vessel disease
imaging markers in the {A}ge{W}ell.de imaging study.},
journal = {NeuroImage: Clinical},
volume = {46},
issn = {2213-1582},
address = {[Amsterdam u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00669},
pages = {103796},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Multimodal lifestyle interventions might help to maintain
healthy cognition in older age and to delay onset of
dementia. Here, we studied the effects of a multi-modal
lifestyle-based intervention, based on the FINGER trial, on
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of
hippocampal-limbic atrophy and cerebral small vessel disease
in older adults at increased risk for dementia in
Germany.Leipzig participants of the multicenter AgeWell.de
randomized controlled trial underwent neuroimaging before
and after a two year intervention at 3 Tesla MRI. We
extracted hippocampal volume and entorhinal cortex thickness
(ECT), free water fraction (FW), peak width of skeletonized
mean diffusivity (PSMD), white matter hyperintensity volume
and mean gray matter cerebral blood flow and assessed the
effect of the intervention on these imaging markers using
linear mixed models. We also tested the effect of the
intervention on the hippocampus-dependent Mnemonic
Similarity Test and fixel-based white matter
microstructure.56 individuals (mean (sd) age: 68.8 (4.2)
years, 26 females, 24/32 intervention/control group) were
included at baseline and 41 returned after an average of 28
months for the second assessment. ECT and FW exhibited
stronger decline in the intervention compared to the control
group in preregistered models but not when adjusted for
baseline differences. All other markers progressed similarly
across groups, however sample size was smaller than
expected. In exploratory analyses, cerebral blood flow
increased more in the intervention group and this change was
associated with decreases in systolic blood pressure.In this
group of older adults at risk for dementia, we find no
conclusive evidence whether a multi-modal lifestyle
intervention improves brain imaging markers of
neurodegeneration and small vessel disease. Preliminary
evidence suggested an association of the intervention,
increased cerebral blood flow and systolic blood pressure
reductions.ECT, entorhinal cortex thickness; FW, free water
fraction; WHO, world health organization; AD, Alzheimer's
disease; VCI, vascular cognitive impairment; FINGER, Finnish
Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment
and Disability; MTL, medial temporal lobe; MIND,
Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay
diet; cSVD, cerebral small vessel disease; WMH, white matter
hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin; PSMD, peak
width of the mean diffusivity distribution; WW-FINGERS,
world wide FINGER studies; CAIDE, Cardiovascular Risk
Factors, Aging, and Incidence of Dementia; GPP, general
practitioner praxis; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; MST,
Mnemonic Similarity Test; TE, echo time; TR, repetition
time; FA, flip angle; FOV, field of view; GRAPPA,
GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partial Parallel Acquisition;
CMRR, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research; BOLD, blood
oxygenation level dependent; pcASL: pseudo-continuous
arterial spin labeling; EPI, echo-planar imaging; FLAIR,
fluid attenuated inversion recovery; CBF, cerebral blood
flow; QA, quality assessment; GM, gray matter; HCV,
hippocampal volume; eICV, estimated intracranial volume;
DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; MD, mean diffusivity; FA,
fractional anisotropy TBSS: tract-based spatial statistics;
CSF, cerebral spinal fluid; ISI, inter-stimulus interval;
LDI, lure discrimination index; REC, recognition score; CG,
control group; IG, intervention group; MoCA, Montreal
Cognitive Assessment; CASMIN, Comparative Analysis of Social
Mobility in Industrial Nations; BMI, body mass index;
SBP/DBP, systolic/diastolic blood pressure; OSF, open
science framework; LMM, linear mixed model; ANOVA, analysis
of covariance.},
keywords = {Humans / Female / Aged / Male / Cognitive Dysfunction:
diagnostic imaging / Cognitive Dysfunction: pathology /
Cognitive Dysfunction: prevention $\&$ control / Cerebral
Small Vessel Diseases: diagnostic imaging / Cerebral Small
Vessel Diseases: pathology / Atrophy: diagnostic imaging /
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: methods / Hippocampus: pathology
/ Hippocampus: diagnostic imaging / Middle Aged / White
Matter: diagnostic imaging / White Matter: pathology / Aged,
80 and over / Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (Other) /
Dementia (Other) / Hippocampus (Other) / Lifestyle (Other) /
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Other) / Multi-component
intervention (Other)},
cin = {AG Thyrian},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1510800},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40378769},
doi = {10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103796},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/279037},
}