Researchers at the University of Calgary are starting a national project to try to get more insight into the brain as people age.
The CAN-PROTECT project, led by Dr. Zahinoor Ismail, begins Wednesday – the same day that a new paper he co-authored shows taking vitamin D could help prevent dementia.
"What we found was that persons who were taking vitamin D at baseline compared to those who took no vitamin D over that time developed dementia probably at a 40 per cent lower rate, so it's quite a significant association," Ismail said in an interview. The Canadian project, he said, will build on the results of the vitamin D study with U.S. participants.
The study will be conducted online and researchers hope to recruit about 10,000 participants from across Canada.
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