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Global cognition score, instrument specified by study

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  1. At 8,000 FU per day for six months there was no between-group difference in Montreal Cognitive Assessment change, with a mean difference of 0.038.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    duration
    6 months
    evidence_access
    Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
    experimental_model
    Human (120 randomized, 88 completed, asymptomatic intracranial or carotid stenosis, mean age 58.3)
    exposure
    Nattokinase, 8,000 FU per day
    limitations
    Double-blind, placebo-controlled and single-centre, with substantial attrition. The highest dose tested in any randomized trial here. A null on cognition does not test plaque or thrombotic endpoints, which is what the high-dose cohort studies report.
    organism
    Human (120 randomized, 88 completed, asymptomatic intracranial or carotid stenosis, mean age 58.3)
    plain_language
    At 8,000 FU per day for six months there was no between-group difference in Montreal Cognitive Assessment change, with a mean difference of 0.038.
    primary_references
    Nattokinase supplementation for cognitive enhancement in asymptomatic intracranial/carotid stenosis: A randomized controlled trial. (2026) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41325794/ DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2025.108511
    route
    In vivo, oral
    tissue
    Cognitive assessment with multimodal brain MRI

    Nattokinase: what the purified enzyme cleaves, what survives being eaten, and the gap between the two (2026-09-23) · lines 1225–1225

    Original AI-assisted curation built from a supplied entity-first document of 105 entities and 129 claims. Every reference in that document was resolved against live PubMed with its abstract read and its DOI cross-checked on 2026-09-23, and the EFSA novel-food opinion was retrieved and read in full. That check corrected two PMIDs that pointed at unrelated papers, two DOIs, and two papers recorded as carrying no erratum that do carry one; it also reversed three findings the supplied document had stated backwards. Two papers carry a published correction, recorded as such and not as a retraction. Three sources are not indexed in PubMed and are cited by what they have. Laboratory lineages are recorded, so the four papers from one group, the three from another and the two readings of a single applicant dossier cannot be counted as separate lines of support. Study-specific doses, units, populations and limitations retained; activity units are never converted between systems. Not publisher full text. · supports · Human (120 randomized, 88 completed, asymptomatic intracranial or carotid stenosis, mean age 58.3) · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    At 8,000 FU per day for six months there was no between-group difference in Montreal Cognitive Assessment change, with a mean difference of 0.038.
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