ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2018
Diet quality and telomere length in older Australian men and women.
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- Diet Quality Indices Used in Australian and New Zealand Adults: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Mediterranean Diet and Telomere Length: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Impact of Nutrition on Telomere Health: Systematic Review of Observational Cohort Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Aging Processes Are Affected by Energy Balance: Focused on the Effects of Nutrition and Physical Activity on Telomere Length.Current nutrition reports · 2024Review
- Diet and Aging: The Role of Polyphenol-Rich Diets in Slow Down the Shortening of Telomeres: A Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Associations between the New DNA-Methylation-Based Telomere Length Estimator, the Mediterranean Diet and Genetics in a Spanish Population at High Cardiovascular Risk.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Comparison of Four Dietary Pattern Indices in Australian Baby Boomers: Findings from the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Association of Telomere Dynamics with Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Young Children.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Obesity Accelerates Leukocyte Telomere Length Shortening in Apparently Healthy Adults: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Association Between Dietary Inflammatory Index and S-Klotho Plasma Levels in Middle-Aged and Elderly People.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Diet quality in an ethnically diverse population of older men in Australia.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Article
- Association of Healthy Eating Index and the Alternative Healthy Eating Index with the cell blood count indices.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Article
- Nuts and Older Adults' Health: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Dietary patterns and telomere length in community-dwelling Chinese older men and women: a cross-sectional analysis.European journal of nutrition · 2020Article
- How metabolic acidosis and kidney disease may accelerate the aging process.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Review
- Plant-Rich Dietary Patterns, Plant Foods and Nutrients, and Telomere Length.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Review
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purposeTelomere length is a biomarker of cellular ageing, with longer telomeres associated with longevity and reduced risk of chronic disease in older age. Consumption of a healthy diet may contribute to longevity via its impact on cellular ageing, but studies on diet and telomere length to date have been limited and their findings equivocal. The aim of this study was to examine associations between three indices of diet quality and telomere length in older men and women.
methodsAdults aged 57-68 years participating in the Wellbeing, Eating and Exercise for a Long Life (WELL) study in Victoria, Australia (n = 679), completed a postal survey including an 111-item food frequency questionnaire in 2012. Diet quality was assessed via three indices: the Dietary Guideline Index, the Recommended Food Score, and the Mediterranean Diet Score. Relative telomere length was measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Associations between diet quality and telomere length were assessed using linear regression adjusted for covariates.
resultsAfter adjustment for age, sex, education, smoking, physical activity, and body mass index (BMI), there were no significant associations between diet quality and relative telomere length.
conclusionsIn a sample of older adults residing in Victoria, Australia, men and women aged 57-68 years with better-quality diets did not have longer telomeres. Further investigation in longitudinal studies will determine whether diet can influence telomere length over time in an ageing population.
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