New curcumin study a mile marker but not the destination
Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:57 pm
96 'older adults', 12-month, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind
'Curcumin and cognition: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of community-dwelling older adults.'
'Curcumin and cognition: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of community-dwelling older adults.'
A significant time×treatment group interaction was observed for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (repeated-measures analysis; time×treatment; F=3·85, P<0·05). Subsequent analysis revealed that this association was driven by a decline in function of the placebo group at 6 months that was not observed in the curcumin treatment group. No differences were observed between the groups for all other clinical and cognitive measures. Our findings suggest that further longitudinal assessment is required to investigate changes in cognitive outcome measures, ideally in conjunction with biological markers of neurodegeneration.