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Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients
Background and Aims: Dietary management, as an adjuvant therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD), provides clear benefits to patients. However, baseline information about the usual dietary intake of Parkinson's patients is lacking. Methods: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study, i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793623 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.00105 |
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author | Baert, Florence Matthys, Christophe Mellaerts, Randy Lemaître, Dirk Vlaemynck, Geertrui Foulon, Veerle |
author_facet | Baert, Florence Matthys, Christophe Mellaerts, Randy Lemaître, Dirk Vlaemynck, Geertrui Foulon, Veerle |
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description | Background and Aims: Dietary management, as an adjuvant therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD), provides clear benefits to patients. However, baseline information about the usual dietary intake of Parkinson's patients is lacking. Methods: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study, investigating the dietary intake in Belgian PD patients, as well as their medication use and knowledge of possible food-drug interactions. A dietary record of 2 non-consecutive days, allowing the calculation of usual intake, was used. Medication use and knowledge of food-drug interactions were investigated using a self-administered questionnaire. Results: The nutrient (both macro and micro) intake in this study was similar to the dietary pattern of the general Belgian population. However, results showed that the PD population had a high dietary fiber intake of 26.2 ± 7.7 g/day, which is in line with the recommended intake. The majority of the PD patients had an inadequate intake of vitamin D and iron (respectively, 55.9 and 76.5% of all participants). When looking into the knowledge about food-drug interactions, the majority of the PD patients claimed to be aware of the food-drug interaction between dietary proteins and levodopa. However, only 18.2% of the patients took all doses of levodopa out of meals. Conclusion: Our results show that monitoring of dietary intake in PD patients is of importance to detect possible micronutrient insufficiencies. Patients should receive professional guidance in optimizing their diet to accommodate for different complaints inherent to PD, including constipation. Furthermore, the knowledge of patients regarding the importance of correct medication intake should be improved. |
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spelling | pubmed-73853032020-08-12 Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients Baert, Florence Matthys, Christophe Mellaerts, Randy Lemaître, Dirk Vlaemynck, Geertrui Foulon, Veerle Front Nutr Nutrition Background and Aims: Dietary management, as an adjuvant therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD), provides clear benefits to patients. However, baseline information about the usual dietary intake of Parkinson's patients is lacking. Methods: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study, investigating the dietary intake in Belgian PD patients, as well as their medication use and knowledge of possible food-drug interactions. A dietary record of 2 non-consecutive days, allowing the calculation of usual intake, was used. Medication use and knowledge of food-drug interactions were investigated using a self-administered questionnaire. Results: The nutrient (both macro and micro) intake in this study was similar to the dietary pattern of the general Belgian population. However, results showed that the PD population had a high dietary fiber intake of 26.2 ± 7.7 g/day, which is in line with the recommended intake. The majority of the PD patients had an inadequate intake of vitamin D and iron (respectively, 55.9 and 76.5% of all participants). When looking into the knowledge about food-drug interactions, the majority of the PD patients claimed to be aware of the food-drug interaction between dietary proteins and levodopa. However, only 18.2% of the patients took all doses of levodopa out of meals. Conclusion: Our results show that monitoring of dietary intake in PD patients is of importance to detect possible micronutrient insufficiencies. Patients should receive professional guidance in optimizing their diet to accommodate for different complaints inherent to PD, including constipation. Furthermore, the knowledge of patients regarding the importance of correct medication intake should be improved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7385303/ /pubmed/32793623 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.00105 Text en Copyright © 2020 Baert, Matthys, Mellaerts, Lemaître, Vlaemynck and Foulon. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Nutrition Baert, Florence Matthys, Christophe Mellaerts, Randy Lemaître, Dirk Vlaemynck, Geertrui Foulon, Veerle Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title | Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title_full | Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title_fullStr | Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title_short | Dietary Intake of Parkinson's Disease Patients |
title_sort | dietary intake of parkinson's disease patients |
topic | Nutrition |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793623 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.00105 |
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