NCT01045031 · UNKNOWN
Cognitive Function in Elderly Marathon Runners
This Austrian study compares thinking and memory test results in older marathon runners and endurance bicyclists against similar people who don't train that hard. It is an observational cohort study, so nobody is assigned a treatment. It looks at whether intense, long-term endurance exercise is linked to better cognition. No phase applies.
You may qualify if
- Current Marathon runners or marathon bicyclists and controls from the greater Vienna area
You're excluded if
- Current of past neurotoxic exposure
- Not German as native language
- Diseases, that might affect central nervous system (stroke, meningitis, meningeoma, hydrocephalus,..)
- Manifest cardiovascular disease
- Alcoholism
The sponsor's own eligibility wording, lightly reformatted. The study team makes the final eligibility decision — worth discussing with your doctor.
Eligibility criteria as of 2018-06-26