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Dietary Patterns and Risk of Frailty in Chinese Community-Dwelling Older People in Hong Kong: A Prospective Cohort Study.
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- Dietary Intake, Mediterranean and Nordic Diet Adherence in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Identification of Chinese dietary patterns and their relationships with health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- How gait influences frailty models and health-related outcomes in clinical-based and population-based studies: a systematic review.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Milk and Other Dairy Products on the Risk of Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Performance Decline in the Elderly: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Pooled it
- Relative Protein Intake and Physical Function in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and the Risk of Frailty in Old People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018Pooled it
- Mediterranean Diet and Musculoskeletal-Functional Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018Pooled it
- Association between Dietary Patterns of Meat and Fish Consumption with Bone Mineral Density or Fracture Risk: A Systematic Literature.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- Nutritional determinants of frailty in older adults: A systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2017Pooled it
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- Study on the Association Between Dietary Habits, Patterns and Frailty of the Elderly: A Cross-Sectional Survey from Communities in China.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Trial
- Sarcopenia modifies the association between diet quality and cognitive function in community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Protein density, carbohydrate quality, and frailty-state transitions among adults aged 50 years or older: a continuous-time multistate analysis of the health and retirement study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Adhering to Healthy Dietary Patterns Prevents Cognitive Decline of Older Adults with Sarcopenia: The Mr. OS and Ms. OS Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The Frailty, Fitness, and Psychophysical/Social Condition of Community-Dwelling Older Adults-Analysis of 5-Year Longitudinal Data.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Diet quality and nutritional risk in patients with Wilson's disease: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between Life's Essential 8 and frailty among the United States older people.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Dietary Patterns Associated with Body-Composition Phenotype in a Middle-Aged and Elderly Population: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Association of Dietary Patterns, Suspected Sarcopenia, and Frailty Syndrome among Older Adults in Poland-A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Association between dietary diversity changes and frailty among Chinese older adults: findings from a nationwide cohort study.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Dietary pattern analysis is an emerging approach to investigate the association between diet and frailty. This study examined the association of dietary patterns with frailty in 2724 Chinese community-dwelling men and women aged > 65 years. Baseline dietary data were collected using a food frequency questionnaire between 2001 and 2003. Adherence to a priori dietary patterns, including the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I) and the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) was assessed. Factor analysis identified three a posteriori dietary patterns, namely "vegetables-fruits", "snacks-drinks-milk products", and "meat-fish". Incident frailty was defined using the FRAIL scale. Binary logistic regression was applied to examine the associations between dietary patterns and four-year incident frailty. There were 31 (1.1%) incident frailty cases at four years. Every 10-unit increase in DQI-I was associated with 41% reduced risk of frailty in the sex- and age-adjusted model (odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval (CI)): 0.59 (0.42-0.85), p = 0.004). The association attenuated in the multivariate adjusted model (0.69 (0.47-1.02), p = 0.056). No association between other dietary patterns and incident frailty was observed. Our study showed that a better diet quality as characterized by higher DQI-I was associated with lower odds of developing frailty. The contribution of MDS or a posteriori dietary patterns to the development of frailty in Chinese older people remains to be explored.
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