Cognitive Status is Better in Older Adults under Colchicine Treatment: A Case-Control Study.

Arzu Okyar BaşGözde Kübra YardımcıMerve Güner OytunSerdar CeylanZeynep KahyaoğluYelda ÖztürkSüheyla ÇöteliMeltem Gülhan HalilMustafa CankurtaranLevent KılıçBurcu Balam Doğu Yavuz

Published in: Experimental aging research (2022)

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study revealing that colchicine usage is associated with better cognitive performance in older adults. Further investigations with a prospective, larger-sampled and randomized design are needed to show the causal relationship between colchicine and cognition.

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