ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2018
Adult Lifetime Diet Quality and Physical Performance in Older Age: Findings From a British Birth Cohort.
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- Diet Quality Trajectories and Musculoskeletal Health Among the Oldest Old: Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Associations between Diet Quality and Global Cognitive Ability across the Life Course: Longitudinal Analysis of the 1946 British Birth Cohort.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Food as medicine: white and whole-grain bread consumption in relation to sarcopenia among older adults, insights from the Birjand Longitudinal Aging Study (BLAS).Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Diet quality from mid-life and body composition in older age: findings from a British birth cohort.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Plant-Based Diets and Their Associations with Physical Performance in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Development of a measure of dietary quality for the UK Biobank.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- The role of nutrition in the prevention of sarcopenia.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Review
- The association of dietary patterns with muscle mass and strength in old age: The Hordaland Health Study.European journal of nutrition · 2023Observational
- Milk intake across adulthood and muscle strength decline from mid- to late life: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Larger dlPFC and vmPFC grey matter volumes are associated with high adherence to the Mediterranean diet: A cross-sectional study in older adults.Aging brain · 2023Article
- Rehabilitation Outcomes among Frail Older Adults in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Dietary Quality and Perceived Barriers to Weight Loss among Older Overweight Veterans with Dysmobility.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2022Review
- Long-Term High Dietary Diversity Maintains Good Physical Function in Chinese Elderly: A Cohort Study Based on CLHLS from 2011 to 2018.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Is lifestyle change around retirement associated with better physical performance in older age?: insights from a longitudinal cohort.European journal of ageing · 2021Article
- The role of diet quality and dietary patterns in predicting muscle mass and function in men over a 15-year period.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2021Article
- Association of diet quality and physical function among overweight and obese primarily African American older adults with lower extremity osteoarthritis.Nutrition and healthy aging · 2021Article
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Background: Current evidence that links "healthier" dietary patterns to better measured physical performance is mainly from older populations; little is known about the role of earlier diet. We examined adult diet quality in relation to physical performance at age 60-64 years. Methods: Diet quality was defined using principal component analysis of dietary data collected at age 36, 43, 53, and 60-64. Throughout adulthood, diets of higher quality were characterized by higher consumption of fruit, vegetables, and wholegrain bread. Diet quality scores calculated at each age indicated compliance with this pattern. Physical performance was assessed using chair rise, timed-up-and-go, and standing balance tests at age 60-64. The analysis sample included 969 men and women. Results: In gender-adjusted analyses, higher diet quality at each age was associated with better measured physical performance (all p < .01 for each test), although some associations were attenuated after adjustment for covariates. Diet quality scores were highly correlated in adulthood (0.44 ≤ r ≤ 0.67). However, conditional models showed that higher diet quality at age 60-64 (than expected from scores at younger ages), was associated with faster chair rise speed and with longer standing balance time (adjusted: 0.08 [95% CI: 0.02, 0.15] and 0.07 [0.01, 0.14] SD increase in chair rise speed and balance time, respectively, per SD increase in conditional diet quality; both p < .05). Conclusions: Higher diet quality across adulthood is associated with better physical performance in older age. Current diet quality may be particularly important for physical performance, suggesting potential for improvements in diet in early older age.
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