ArticleJournal of nutritional science2016
Dietary patterns are associated with cognitive function in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort.
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- Ultraprocessed Food Intake, Cognition, and Executive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- High intake of ultra-processed food is associated with dementia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Journal of neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Whole Dietary Patterns, Cognitive Decline and Cognitive Disorders: A Systematic Review of Prospective and Intervention Studies.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary patterns in middle age: effects on concurrent neurocognition and risk of age-related cognitive decline.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Apixaban Versus Aspirin to Reduce Cognitive Decline After Cryptogenic Stroke and Atrial Cardiopathy: ARCADIA-Cognition Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Trial
- "Shaking the ladder" reveals how analytic choices can influence associations in nutrition epidemiology: beef intake and coronary heart disease as a case study.Critical reviews in food science and nutrition · 2026Review
- Dietary Patterns and Brain Health in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Association between dietary patterns and anemia in older adults: the 2015 China adults chronic diseases and nutrition surveillance.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Association of Adherence to a MIND-Style Diet With the Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Decline in the REGARDS Cohort.Neurology · 2024Article
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- The role of caregiving in cognitive function and change: The REGARDS study.Psychology and aging · 2023Article
- A healthy plant-based diet was associated with slower cognitive decline in African American older adults: a biracial community-based cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
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- Relationship between diet and relative risk of pain in a cross-sectional analysis of the REGARDS longitudinal study.Pain management · 2022Article
- Dietary Pattern Associated with the Risk of Hyperuricemia in Chinese Elderly: Result from China Nutrition and Health Surveillance 2015-2017.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Adherence to a MIND-Like Dietary Pattern, Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution, and MRI-Based Measures of Brain Volume: The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study-MRI.Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- Unhealthy foods may attenuate the beneficial relation of a Mediterranean diet to cognitive decline.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2021Article
- Serum magnesium concentration and incident cognitive impairment: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke study.European journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Vascular-brain Injury Progression after Stroke (VIPS) study: concept for understanding racial and geographic determinants of cognitive decline after stroke.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2020Review
- Racial Differences in Dietary Relations to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease Risk: Do We Know Enough?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
Identifying factors that contribute to the preservation of cognitive function is imperative to maintaining quality of life in advanced years. Of modifiable risk factors, diet quality has emerged as a promising candidate to make an impact on cognition. The objective of this study was to evaluate associations between empirically derived dietary patterns and cognitive function. This study included 18 080 black and white participants aged 45 years and older from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. Principal component analysis on data from the Block98 FFQ yielded five dietary patterns: convenience, plant-based, sweets/fats, Southern, and alcohol/salads. Incident cognitive impairment was defined as shifting from intact cognitive status (score >4) at first assessment to impaired cognitive status (score ≤4) at latest assessment, measured by the Six-Item Screener. Learning, memory and executive function were evaluated with the Word List Learning, Word List Delayed Recall, and animal fluency assessments. In fully adjusted models, greater consumption of the alcohol/salads pattern was associated with lower odds of incident cognitive impairment (highest quintile (Q5)
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