ArticleNutrients2021
Dietary Intake of Vitamin E and Fats Associated with Sarcopenia in Community-Dwelling Older Japanese People: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Fifth Survey of the ROAD Study.
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- Relationship between monounsaturated fatty acids and sarcopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Pooled it
- Relationship Between Dietary Omega-3 and Omega-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Level and Sarcopenia. A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Combined Effects of Protein/Fat Deficiency and Disuse on Skeletal Muscle Mass and Function in Mice.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Article
- Associations between dietary patterns and sarcopenia: insights from cross-sectional and Mendelian randomization analyses.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of Dietary Antioxidant Potential with Sarcopenia in Hypertension.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence and influencing factors of sarcopenia among older adults in rural coastal areas of Ningbo City.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Association Between Serum Ergothioneine Concentration and Japanese Dietary Habits: The Third Survey of the ROAD Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The association between dietary vitamins and the risk of sarcopenia in adults aged 20-59: a study based on the NHANES database.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Exercise and nutrition benefit skeletal muscle: From influence factor and intervention strategy to molecular mechanism.Sports medicine and health science · 2024Review
- The role of zinc on nutritional status, sarcopenia, and frailty in older adults: a scoping review.Nutrition reviews · 2024Article
- Non-Pharmacological Strategies for Managing Sarcopenia in Chronic Diseases.Clinical interventions in aging · 2024Review
- The inverse associations between composite-dietary-antioxidant-index and sarcopenia risk in US adults.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
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- Chronic Vitamin E Deficiency Dysregulates Purine, Phospholipid, and Amino Acid Metabolism in Aging Zebrafish Skeletal Muscle.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Advances in nutritional supplementation for sarcopenia management.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- Dietary intake and major source foods of vitamin E among Koreans: findings of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2016-2019.Nutrition research and practice · 2022Article
- Roles of nutrition in muscle health of community-dwelling older adults: evidence-based expert consensus from Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Review
- Prevalence and Factors Influencing Sarcopenia Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia Definition.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dietary habits are of considerable interest as a modifiable factor for the maintenance of muscle health, especially sarcopenia. The present study aimed to investigate the association between dietary intake and sarcopenia prevalence in community-dwelling Japanese subjects. This cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the fifth survey of the Research on Osteoarthritis/Osteoporosis against Disability (ROAD) study, and 1345 participants (437 men and 908 women) aged ≥60 years were included in the analysis. Sarcopenia was determined by the definition of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia established in 2014, and dietary intake was assessed with the brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire. Overall, 77 subjects (5.7%) were identified as having sarcopenia, 5.0% of men and 6.1% of women. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that the odds ratios of sarcopenia for the dietary intake of vitamin E (α-tocopherol, 0.14 (CI 0.04-0.49), β-tocopherol (0.24, CI 0.07-0.78), γ-tocopherol (0.28, CI 0.09-0.87), and fats (fat 0.27, CI 0.08-0.96; monounsaturated fatty acids, 0.22, CI 0.07-0.72, polyunsaturated fatty acids, 0.28, CI 0.09-0.89) at the highest quantile were significantly lower compared with those at the lowest quantile. Therefore, higher dietary intakes of vitamin E and fats would be associated with a lower prevalence of sarcopenia.
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