ReviewClinical interventions in aging2017
Bilingualism as a strategy to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Review in Clinical interventions in aging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Language, Immigration, Race and Cognitive Health: Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences (KHANDLE) Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- High School Curricular Rigor and Cognitive Function among White Older Adults.Journal of health and social behavior · 2025Article
- Community-based interventions for mitigating cognitive-linguistic decline in older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Thirty Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease Unified by a Common Neuroimmune-Neuroinflammation Mechanism.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Lifelong Bilingualism Functions as an Alternative Intervention for Cognitive Reserve Against Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Moderation-Mediation Effects in Bilingualism and Cognitive Reserve.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Brain Structure in Bilingual Compared to Monolingual Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease: Proof of Concept.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2020Article
- Impact of Learning a Foreign Language on the Enhancement of Cognitive Functions Among Healthy Older Population.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2019Article
- A Systematic Review on the Possible Relationship Between Bilingualism, Cognitive Decline, and the Onset of Dementia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Article
- A Brief Review of Paradigm Shifts in Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease: From Cognitive Reserve to Precision Medicine.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Bilingualism for Dementia: Neurological Mechanisms Associated With Functional and Structural Changes in the Brain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Review
- Bilingualism Delays Expression of Alzheimer's Clinical Syndrome.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2019Article
- Learning a Foreign Language: A Review on Recent Findings About Its Effect on the Enhancement of Cognitive Functions Among Healthy Older Individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore original studies which provide evidence about the effects of bilingualism on the delay of the onset of dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease (AD). A literature review was conducted in the world's acknowledged databases: Web of Science, Scopus, and MEDLINE. Altogether, 14 original studies focusing on the research topic were detected. These included six prospective cohort studies and eight retrospective studies. Both types of studies suggest different conclusions. The findings from the prospective cohort studies state that there is no association between bilingualism and the delay of the onset of AD, while the retrospective studies claim the opposite. Despite the negative results of the prospective cohort studies, more research should be conducted on bilingualism and its impact on the delay of the onset of AD, since the brain studies have brought positive findings as far as the enhancement of cognitive reserve is concerned.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.