ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Effects of agricultural or gardening physical activity on cardiovascular disease and dementia-related markers via arterial stiffness, cognitive function, and cerebral white matter status: results from cross-sectional and interventional studies.
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- Dose-response efficacy of horticultural therapy for geriatric depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Agricultural or gardening physical activity may slow neurovascular aging and prevent stroke and dementia: an experimental and cross-sectional study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Agricultural or gardening physical activity (AGPA) offers potential as a simple strategy to improve cardiovascular disease and dementia-related markers; however, the actual preventive effects remain unclear. Our objective was to investigate AGPA regarding related markers of cardiovascular disease and dementia using cross-sectional and interventional approaches. Methods and results: In Study 1, community-based older individuals were assessed, and 30 individuals who performed AGPA (AG group) and 30 1:1 age-, sex-, and objective activity-matched controls were cross-sectionally compared (mean age, 75 ± 6 y). Arterial stiffness (pulse wave velocity) was lower and hand-finger dexterity (pegboard test) was higher in the AG vs. control groups. The interventional results of Study 2 (secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial) confirmed that consistent AGPA might regress white matter hyperintensities in older individuals. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that consistent AGPA Secondary analysis of clinical trials study 2: Study for Decreasing Depressive Symptoms and Increasing Memory Performance in the older adults (Trial registration number UMIN000018547, Date of registration 2015/08/07), URL: https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000021462.
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