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ArticleJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2014

Mediterranean diet and cognitive decline. A lesson from the whole-diet approach: what challenges lie ahead?

Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Francesco Panza

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Article in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Vincenzo SolfrizziGeriatric Medicine-Memory Unit and Rare Disease Centre, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
Francesco PanzaNeurodegenerative Disease Unit, Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, "Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico", Tricase, Lecce, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Higher adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet was associated with decreased cognitive decline, although the Mediterranean diet (MeDi) combines several foods, micronutrients, and macronutrients already separately proposed as potential protective factors against dementia and predementia syndromes. The findings from prospective studies and very recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses suggested that adherence to the MeDi fulfilling the whole-diet approach may affect not only the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but also of predementia syndromes and their progression to overt dementia. However, some concerns exist regarding how these instruments have been developed for measuring adherence to the MeDi, suggesting a better qualitative and quantitative selection of the individual dietary components and/or food groups to improve their reliability.

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Diet, MediterraneanAlzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionHumansAlzheimer's diseaseMediterranean dietmeta-analysismild cognitive impairmentsystematic review

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PMID24270209

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