SynthesisAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2019
Effect of Milk and Other Dairy Products on the Risk of Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Cognitive Performance Decline in the Elderly: A Systematic Review.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 134 citations in OpenAlex.
- Terrestrial Animal Source Foods and Health Outcomes for Those with Special Nutrient Needs in the Life Course.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- The Effects of Milk and Dairy Products on Sleep: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Late-Life Dietary Patterns and Subsequent Survival Among Adults Aged 90 Years or Older in the Sardinian Blue Zone.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- Longitudinal association between dietary quality trajectories and cognitive frailty in older adults: a 12-year study of the TIGER cohort.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Brain Foods: A Narrative Review of Food Items and Their Impact on Cognition over the Life Course.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The World Health Organization Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) Framework and the Association with Frailty in Older Adults.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2026Article
- Dietary intake adequacy among Iranian older adults: evidence from national household survey data and two population-based cohorts.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between the digestion-resistant bioactive peptide content in dairy products and the risk of sarcopenia in Iranian elderly: a case-control study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Minimum pulse rate during sleep as a MMSE-associated factor: a multifaceted exploratory study in older adults without long-term care certification.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- The relationship between elderly dietary index and sarcopenia: a case-control study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Cheese Consumption and Incidence of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Japanese Adults: The JAGES 2019-2022 Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The association between dairy and bone quality in Puerto Rican adults varies by dairy food and fat content.JBMR plus · 2025Article
- Exploring the Relationship Among Malnutrition, Intake of Various Food Groups, and Sarcopenia in Elderly Population: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Four Dairy Products Mitigates Sarcopenia in Mice by Modulating Muscle Inflammation, Autophagy, and Protein Degradation.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
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- Health status, lifestyle and quality of life in older adults of rural and urban areas of Tarragona province (Catalonia, Spain): a cross-sectional descriptive study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Association between dairy products intake and frailty transitions in older adults: The InCHIANTI cohort study.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Article
- Food security at risk: the consequences of limiting animal source foods.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of proteomics and transcriptomics reveals novel mechanism underlying the antibacterial activity and immune-enhancing properties of horse milk.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Dietary recommendations of the Moroccan Society of Rheumatology (SMR) for patients with ostéosarcopenia.Archives of osteoporosis · 2024Review
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Abstract
Nutrition is a modifiable factor potentially related to aging. Milk and other dairy products may contribute to the prevention of physical and cognitive impairment. We conducted a systematic review to investigate the effectiveness of dairy product intake for preventing cognitive decline, sarcopenia, and frailty in the elderly population. A systematic search for publications in electronic databases [MEDLINE via PubMed, Embase, Scopus, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews] from 2009 to 2018 identified observational and interventional studies in English and Spanish that tested the relation between dairy product consumption and cognitive decline, sarcopenia, and frailty in community-dwelling older people. We assessed the participants, the type of exposure or intervention, the outcomes, and the quality of evidence. We screened a total of 661 records and included 6 studies (5 observational prospective cohort studies and 1 randomized controlled trial). Regarding cognitive impairment, the relation cannot be firmly established. Consumption of milk at midlife may be negatively associated with verbal memory performance. In older women, high intakes of dairy desserts and ice cream were associated with cognitive decline. On the other hand, 1 study demonstrated a significant inverse relation between dairy intake and development of Alzheimer disease among older Japanese subjects. The consumption of dairy products by older people may reduce the risk of frailty, especially with high consumption of low-fat milk and yogurt, and may also reduce the risk of sarcopenia by improving skeletal muscle mass through the addition of nutrient-rich dairy proteins (ricotta cheese) to the habitual diet. Despite the scarcity of evidence on the topic, our systematic review shows that there are some positive effects of dairy products on frailty and sarcopenia, whereas studies concerning cognitive decline have contradictory findings.
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