Taurine and Improved Digit Symbol Substitution Test Score

• Effect of a 12-mo intervention with whey protein powder on cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2025-02
  • RCT · n = 107
  • The American journal of clinical nutrition 121(2)
  • • Fengping Li
    • Ruikun He
    • Zhongbao Yue
    • Haoran Yi
    • Likang Lu
    • Longbang Zhang
    • Jiahui Shi
    • Chenchen Zheng
    • Jiayi Jiao
    • Jianying Peng
    • Benchao Li
    • Shuang Rong

  • PubMed: 39571910
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.11.019

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Digit Symbol Substitution Test Score

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  The results also found a significant beneficial effect of the active intervention for several secondary cognitive outcomes such as Digit Symbol Substitution Test score, and the mean difference between groups in the ITT analysis was 2.72 (95% CI: 0.20, 5.23).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  15 g/day