Our collaborative work led by Dr. Lisa Mosconi of Weill Cornell Medical College has been published in the March issue of the British Medical Journal, titled “Lifestyle and vascular risk effects on MRI-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged adults from the broader New York City area”. In this study, brain image analysis showed that a Mediterranean diet and insulin sensitivity explained reductions in the thickness of gray matter in key brain regions for Alzheimer’s disease. This work has important implications for the role of life style factors, particularly diet, in Alzheimer’s disease risk.
