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Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults

BACKGROUND: Few studies have evaluated the linkage between food cost and mortality among older adults. This study considers the hypothesis that greater food expenditure in general, and particularly on more nutritious plant and animal-derived foods, decreases mortality in older adults. METHODS: This...

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Autores principales: Lo, Yuan-Ting, Chang, Yu-Hung, Wahlqvist, Mark L, Huang, Han-Bin, Lee, Meei-Shyuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23253183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-11-113
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author Lo, Yuan-Ting
Chang, Yu-Hung
Wahlqvist, Mark L
Huang, Han-Bin
Lee, Meei-Shyuan
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Chang, Yu-Hung
Wahlqvist, Mark L
Huang, Han-Bin
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description BACKGROUND: Few studies have evaluated the linkage between food cost and mortality among older adults. This study considers the hypothesis that greater food expenditure in general, and particularly on more nutritious plant and animal-derived foods, decreases mortality in older adults. METHODS: This study uses the 1999–2000 Elderly Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan and follows the cohort until 2008, collecting 24-hr dietary recall data for 1781 participants (874 men and 907 women) aged 65 y or older. Using monthly mean national food prices and 24-hr recall, this study presents an estimate of daily expenditures for vegetable, fruit, animal-derived, and grain food categories. Participants were linked to the national death registry. RESULTS: Of the 1781 original participants, 625 died during the 10-y follow-up period. Among the 4 food categories, the fourth and fifth expenditure quintiles for vegetables and for fruits had the highest survival rates. After adjusting for co-variates, higher (Q4) vegetable and higher fruit (Q4) food expenditures referent to Q1 were significantly predictive of reduced mortality (HR = 0.55, 95% CI: 0.39-0.78 and HR = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.42–0.99, respectively) and the risk decreased by 12% and 10% for every NT$15 (US$0.50) increase in their daily expenditures. Animal-derived and grain food spending was not predictive of mortality. CONCLUSION: Greater and more achievable vegetable and fruit affordability may improve food security and longevity for older adults.
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spelling pubmed-35487212013-02-05 Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults Lo, Yuan-Ting Chang, Yu-Hung Wahlqvist, Mark L Huang, Han-Bin Lee, Meei-Shyuan Nutr J Research BACKGROUND: Few studies have evaluated the linkage between food cost and mortality among older adults. This study considers the hypothesis that greater food expenditure in general, and particularly on more nutritious plant and animal-derived foods, decreases mortality in older adults. METHODS: This study uses the 1999–2000 Elderly Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan and follows the cohort until 2008, collecting 24-hr dietary recall data for 1781 participants (874 men and 907 women) aged 65 y or older. Using monthly mean national food prices and 24-hr recall, this study presents an estimate of daily expenditures for vegetable, fruit, animal-derived, and grain food categories. Participants were linked to the national death registry. RESULTS: Of the 1781 original participants, 625 died during the 10-y follow-up period. Among the 4 food categories, the fourth and fifth expenditure quintiles for vegetables and for fruits had the highest survival rates. After adjusting for co-variates, higher (Q4) vegetable and higher fruit (Q4) food expenditures referent to Q1 were significantly predictive of reduced mortality (HR = 0.55, 95% CI: 0.39-0.78 and HR = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.42–0.99, respectively) and the risk decreased by 12% and 10% for every NT$15 (US$0.50) increase in their daily expenditures. Animal-derived and grain food spending was not predictive of mortality. CONCLUSION: Greater and more achievable vegetable and fruit affordability may improve food security and longevity for older adults. BioMed Central 2012-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3548721/ /pubmed/23253183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-11-113 Text en Copyright ©2012 Lo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lo, Yuan-Ting
Chang, Yu-Hung
Wahlqvist, Mark L
Huang, Han-Bin
Lee, Meei-Shyuan
Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title_full Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title_fullStr Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title_full_unstemmed Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title_short Spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
title_sort spending on vegetable and fruit consumption could reduce all-cause mortality among older adults
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23253183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-11-113
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