饮食多样性与社区老年人的认知障碍之间的关联
Yuto Kiuchi1,2, Takehiko Doi1, Kota Tsutsumimoto1
1Department of Preventive Gerontology, Center for Gerontology and Social Science, Research Institute, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Japan.
Geriatrics & gerontology international
|December 20, 2023
概括
高度的饮食多样性与日本老年人认知障碍率较低有关. 这一发现表明,多样化的饮食可能会支持老年人群中的大脑健康.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 营养科学 营养科学
- 认知神经科学 认知神经科学
背景情况:
- 认知障碍,包括轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 和全球认知障碍 (GCI),对老年人群构成重大健康挑战.
- 饮食多样性越来越被认为是影响认知健康的潜在可修改因素.
- 了解饮食和认知之间的关系对于制定有效的公共卫生战略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查饮食多样性与社区居住的日本老年人认知障碍 (MCI和GCI) 患病率之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 一项涉及8987名日本老年人的横截面研究.
- 认知功能使用迷你精神状态检查和国家老年病学和老年病学中心功能评估工具进行评估.
- 饮食多样性使用饮食多样性得分来量化,高多样性定义为基于10个食物组1周消费的≥3分的得分.
主要成果:
- 在研究人群中,MCI的患病率为17.1%,GCI的患病率为8.4%.
- 近70%的参与者表现出高的饮食多样性.
- 多项逻辑回归表明,高饮食多样性与MCI (OR 0.83) 和GCI (OR 0.77) 的可能性降低显着相关,在对共变量进行调整后.
结论:
- 这项大规模研究表明,高饮食多样性与日本老年人认知障碍患病率降低之间存在显著的关联.
- 这些发现表明,促进饮食多样性可能是维持老龄人口认知健康的有益策略.
- 进一步的研究可以探索因果机制和干预可能性.
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