Healthy eating and reduced risk of cognitive decline
A cohort from 40 countries
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- Received October 2, 2014
- Accepted in final form February 19, 2015
- First Published May 6, 2015.
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Author Disclosures
- Andrew Smyth, MMedSc*,
- Mahshid Dehghan, PhD*,
- Martin O'Donnell, PhD,
- Craig Anderson, MD,
- Koon Teo, MD,
- Peggy Gao, MSc,
- Peter Sleight, DM,
- Gilles Dagenais, MD,
- Jeffrey L. Probstfield, MD,
- Andrew Mente, PhD and
- Salim Yusuf, DPhil
- On behalf of the ONTARGET and TRANSCEND Investigators
- Andrew Smyth, MMedSc*,
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Health Services Executive and Health Research Board of Ireland, NSAFP/2011/2, Research Fellowship Support, 2011-2015
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- Mahshid Dehghan, PhD*,
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- Martin O'Donnell, PhD,
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Bayer, BI, BMS, Pfizer for presentations
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- Craig Anderson, MD,
Pfizer Inc and The Medicines Company
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Receives honoraria from serving on the scientific advisory board for Pfizer Inc and The Medicines Company; receives funding for travel from Takeda China and Covidien
Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Medical Journal of Australia
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Program grant (1052555), Project grant (1020462) and Fellowship (1081356) support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.
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- Koon Teo, MD,
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- Peggy Gao, MSc,
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- Peter Sleight, DM,
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Boehringer Ingelheim, honoraria and expenses during the conduct of ONTARGET/TRANSCEND
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- Gilles Dagenais, MD,
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- Jeffrey L. Probstfield, MD,
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Non profit. Consultancy with Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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Sanofi Pharmaceuticals-Research Grant Bristol Myers Squibb-Research Grant Astra Zeneca-Research Grant
NHLBI-ACCORDION Follow-up
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- Andrew Mente, PhD and
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- Salim Yusuf, DPhil
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Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Travel and Honorarium.
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Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, Astra Zeneca, Cadila Pharma, Sanofi Aventis
CIHR (Several grants as PI/OPI).
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Wellcome Trust, UK Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
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- From the Population Health Research Institute (A.S., M.D., M.O.D., K.T., P.G., A.M., S.Y.), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Health Research Board Clinical Research Facility (A.S., M.O.D.), National University of Ireland, Galway; The George Institute for Global Health (C.A.), Australia; Nuffield Department of Medicine (P.S.), John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK; Laval University Heart and Lung Institute (G.D.), Quebec, Canada; and University of Washington (J.L.P.), School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.
- Correspondence to Andrew Smyth: andrew.smyth{at}phri.ca
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- Diet, Cognition and the Microbiota
- Robert P. Friedland, Neurologist, Univ. of Louisvile School of Medicine[email protected]
- Cora O'Neill, Cork, Ireland; Paul O'Toole, Cork, Ireland
Submitted July 23, 2015
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