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Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults
Identifying modifying protective factors to promote healthy aging is of utmost public health importance. The frailty index (FI) reflects the accumulation of health deficits and is one widely used method to assess health trajectories in aging. Adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet (MTD) has been ass...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33808076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13041129 |
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author | Tanaka, Toshiko Talegawkar, Sameera A. Jin, Yichen Bandinelli, Stephania Ferrucci, Luigi |
author_facet | Tanaka, Toshiko Talegawkar, Sameera A. Jin, Yichen Bandinelli, Stephania Ferrucci, Luigi |
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description | Identifying modifying protective factors to promote healthy aging is of utmost public health importance. The frailty index (FI) reflects the accumulation of health deficits and is one widely used method to assess health trajectories in aging. Adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet (MTD) has been associated with favorable health trajectories. Therefore, this study explored whether adherence to a MTD is negatively associated with FI in the InCHIANTI study. Participants (n = 485) included individuals over 65 years of age at baseline with complete data over a follow-up period of 10 years. MTD was computed on a scale of 0–9 and categorized based on these scores into three groups of low (≤3), medium (4–5), and high (≥6) adherence. Being in a high or medium adherence group was associated with 0.03 and 0.013 unit lower FI scores over the follow-up period, compared to the low adherence group. In participants with a low FI at baseline, being in a high or medium MTD-adherence group had 0.004 and 0.005 unit/year slower progression of FI compared to the low adherence group. These study results support adherence to a MTD as a protective strategy to maintain a lower FI. |
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spelling | pubmed-80654552021-04-25 Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults Tanaka, Toshiko Talegawkar, Sameera A. Jin, Yichen Bandinelli, Stephania Ferrucci, Luigi Nutrients Article Identifying modifying protective factors to promote healthy aging is of utmost public health importance. The frailty index (FI) reflects the accumulation of health deficits and is one widely used method to assess health trajectories in aging. Adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet (MTD) has been associated with favorable health trajectories. Therefore, this study explored whether adherence to a MTD is negatively associated with FI in the InCHIANTI study. Participants (n = 485) included individuals over 65 years of age at baseline with complete data over a follow-up period of 10 years. MTD was computed on a scale of 0–9 and categorized based on these scores into three groups of low (≤3), medium (4–5), and high (≥6) adherence. Being in a high or medium adherence group was associated with 0.03 and 0.013 unit lower FI scores over the follow-up period, compared to the low adherence group. In participants with a low FI at baseline, being in a high or medium MTD-adherence group had 0.004 and 0.005 unit/year slower progression of FI compared to the low adherence group. These study results support adherence to a MTD as a protective strategy to maintain a lower FI. MDPI 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8065455/ /pubmed/33808076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13041129 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Article Tanaka, Toshiko Talegawkar, Sameera A. Jin, Yichen Bandinelli, Stephania Ferrucci, Luigi Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title | Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title_full | Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title_short | Association of Adherence to the Mediterranean-Style Diet with Lower Frailty Index in Older Adults |
title_sort | association of adherence to the mediterranean-style diet with lower frailty index in older adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33808076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13041129 |
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