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A diet with higher inflammatory potential increases dementia risk in individuals over 50. Modifying dietary inflammatory potential can help reduce dementia risk, as diet is a modifiable factor.

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Area of Science:

  • Nutrition Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Nearly half of dementia cases may be preventable by managing modifiable risk factors.
  • Limited longitudinal data exist on the association between dietary inflammatory potential and dementia risk.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a higher inflammatory potential diet is a risk factor for dementia incidence.
  • To analyze the association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and dementia risk over a three-year follow-up period.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 2,346 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) participants aged 50+.
  • Calculated the energy-adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index (E-DII™) from dietary intake data.
  • Employed Poisson regression models to analyze dementia incidence, adjusting for various covariates.

Main Results:

  • Participants in the second and third tertiles of dietary inflammatory potential showed a significantly higher risk of dementia incidence (IRR=1.96 and IRR=2.08, respectively) compared to the lowest tertile.
  • The study identified a dose-response relationship between dietary inflammatory potential and dementia risk.

Conclusions:

  • Higher dietary inflammatory potential is associated with an increased risk of dementia in adults aged 50 and over.
  • Dietary modification to reduce inflammatory potential represents a viable strategy for dementia risk reduction.