Clinical Nutrition: The impact of diet on the risk of Alzheimer's disease

Longevity is what we all want, but longevity also has the side effects of age-related chronic diseases.
For example, dementia is one of the most serious and common diseases in old age
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Due to the lack of effective treatments for dementia, there is a great need to prevent or delay its appearance

Longevity is what we all want, but longevity also has the side effects of age-related chronic diseases.

 

The province of Varese, Italy conducts related research on people 80 or older
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Using a validated food frequency questionnaire to collect information on 23 different foods consumed in the previous year, the researchers then calculated the Mediterranean diet score and classified its composition into three groups: high, medium and low

 

A total of 1390 subjects were included in this cross-sectional study, with an average age of 93 and 92 years, respectively
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Adhering to the Mediterranean diet, eating more eggs, fruits and vegetables, carbohydrates, and more food intake is associated with a lower prevalence of dementia

Picture: Mediterranean diet pattern

This study found that among patients with dementia, the elders eat less, and the types of diets and nutrient density are lower
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Longitudinal analysis confirmed that the oldest subjects who ate more and those who consumed more legumes had a reduced risk of dementia

This study found that among patients with dementia, the elders eat less, and the types of diets and nutrient density are lower

 

Original source:

Cristina Nicoli.

The role of diet on the risk of dementia in the oldest old: The Monzino 80-plus population-based study.

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