Nutritional treatment for Alzheimer's disease / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

With population aging, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease(AD)is rapidly growing year by year.In recent years, nutritional treatment, as a non-pharmaceutical intervention for AD, has made great progress and shown great potential for the development of treatment strategies.Nutritional intervention mainly includes micronutrient intervention, medical food intervention and dietary pattern intervention, which together play an important role in the prevention and treatment of AD.This review primarily focuses on the mechanisms and methods of nutritional treatment and summarizes the progress in theoretical research and practice about nutrition intervention in China and other countries.