A big lifestyle trial barely changed aging brain scans
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US POINTER is the landmark lifestyle trial that improved cognition in older adults last year. Now its brain scans are out, and the structured program slowed one marker of small-vessel injury. But only in people under seventy. One marker, one age group, in nine hundred and fifty-nine adults. Is that protecting the brain, or the catch?
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