Mediterranean diet and treating diabetes and depression in old age may reduce dementia risk.

The long ‘preclinical’ phase including mild cognitive impairment-stage (MCI) in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) provide the opportunity for preventive interventions to reduce the risk for conversion to dementia or rather slow disease progression. Currently, neither psychopharmacological nor non-pharmacological strategies turned out to prevent patients with MCI from converting to AD. There is increasing evidence that the risk for conversion from MCI to AD could be reduced by modifying life style and consequent treatment of especially the metabolic syndrome…