Exercise improves cognition in Parkinson's disease: The PRET-PD randomized, clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This article reports on the findings of the effect of two structured exercise interventions on secondary cognitive outcomes that were gathered as part of the Progressive Resistance Exercise Training in Parkinson's disease (PD) randomized, controlled trial.

Methods

This study was a prospective, parallel-group, single-center trial. Fifty-one nondemented patients with mild-to-moderate PD were randomly assigned either to modified Fitness Counts (mFC) or to Progressive Resistance Exercise Training (PRET) and were followed for 24 months. Cognitive outcomes were the Digit Span, Stroop, and Brief Test of Attention (BTA).

Results

Eighteen patients in mFC and 20 patients in PRET completed the trial. At 12 and at 24 months, no differences between groups were observed.

SUBMITTER: David FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4609235 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature