NEW YORK — A new study published today in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that daily multivitamins, compared to placebo, improved memory among participants.

The multivitamin selected for the study was Centrum Silver—a multivitamin specially formulated for older adults. Created for healthy aging in those 50s and beyond, Centrum Silver (Amazon (10.4K ratings & 4.8 stars), CVS Pharmacy) has high-quality ingredients and all the essential vitamins and minerals to keep hearts, brains and eyes healthy and protected and is the No. 1 Doctor recommended multivitamin brand.

The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) – a large-scale nation-wide randomized trial directed by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital – included two separate clinical trials (COSMOS-Web and COSMOS-Mind) testing multivitamin supplementation on changes in cognitive function. The study is the second from COSMOS to find an improvement in memory function among those taking a multivitamin.

The newly published COSMOS-Web trial included more than 3,500 participants aged 60 and older who completed assessments of memory and cognition annually over 3 years. Compared to the placebo group, participants randomized to multivitamin supplementation did significantly better on the memory tests at the prespecified primary time point of 1 year, with benefits sustained across the 3 years of follow-up. The researchers estimated that the multivitamin intervention improved memory performance by the equivalent of 3.1 years compared to the placebo group. Both COSMOS cognitive studies also showed that the participants who benefitted the most may be those with a history of cardiovascular disease.