ArticleJournal of the American Medical Directors Association2018
The Relationship Between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Incident Frailty: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
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- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index and Aging Biomarkers/Conditions: A Systematic Review and Dose-response Meta-analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory potential and the incidence of depression and anxiety: a meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary patterns and longitudinal frailty progression in older Chinese adults: a nationwide cohort study.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2026Article
- The association of depressive symptoms and dietary inflammatory index with frailty in older adults with diabetes.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Association between dietary inflammation index and frailty among community medical staff.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between dietary inflammatory index and sarcopenia development in Polish population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- [Interactions between nutrition and frailty].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Diet-microbiome synergy: unraveling the combined impact on frailty through interactions and mediation.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- Ultra-Processed Food and Frailty: Evidence from a Prospective Cohort Study and Implications for Future Research.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association of remnant cholesterol with depression, type 2 diabetes, and their coexistence.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Associations of Dietary Inflammatory Index Scores with the disability status and subjective health of older adults living in non-urban municipalities in Nagasaki and Ishikawa Prefectures, Japan.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of dietary health indices with frailty.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Unhealthful plant-based diet associates with frailty risk predominantly in men with low income from the UK Biobank cohort.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Article
- Combined association between dietary inflammatory index-related dietary patterns and physical activity with frailty in Chinese older adults: findings from a cross-sectional.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Association of the dietary inflammation index with frailty in middle-aged and older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- The dietary inflammatory index is positively associated with low muscle mass in adults: an analysis of NHANES.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Overview of anti-inflammatory diets and their promising effects on non-communicable diseases.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Review
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- Association of the dietary inflammatory index with sarcopenic obesity and frailty in older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveInflammation is key risk factor for several conditions in the elderly. However, the relationship between inflammation and frailty is still unclear. We investigated whether higher dietary inflammatory index (DII) scores were associated with higher incidence of frailty in a cohort of North Americans.
designLongitudinal, with a follow-up of 8 years.
settingOsteoarthritis Initiative.
participantsA total of 4421 participants with, or at high risk of, knee osteoarthritis. MEASUREMENTS: DII scores were calculated using the validated Block Brief 2000 Food-Frequency Questionnaire and categorized into sex-specific quartiles. Frailty was defined as 2 out of 3 of the criteria of the Study of Osteoporotic Fracture study (ie, weight loss, inability to rise from a chair 5 times, and poor energy). The strength of the association between baseline DII score and incident frailty was assessed through a Cox's regression analysis, adjusted for potential baseline confounders, and reported as hazard ratios.
resultsA total of 4421 community-dwelling participants (2564 female participants; mean age: 61.3 years) without frailty at baseline were identified from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. During 8 years of follow-up, 356 individuals developed frailty (8.2%). Using Cox's regression analysis, adjusting for 11 potential confounders, participants with the highest DII score (quartile 4) had a significantly higher risk of experiencing frailty (hazard ratio 1.37; 95% confidence interval 1.01-1.89; P = .04) compared with participants with the lowest DII score (quartile 1). The association between DII score and frailty was significant only in men.
conclusionsHigher DII scores, indicating a more proinflammatory diet, are associated with higher incidence of frailty, particularly in men.
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