ArticleNutrients2022
Taiwanese Vegetarians Are Associated with Lower Dementia Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study.
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- Associations between plant-based dietary patterns and risks of cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026Pooled it
- Association between plant-based diets and incident dementia: results from prospective cohort studies and a meta-analysis.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2026Pooled it
- Plant-Based Diets and Cognitive Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Pooled it
- Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.Neurology · 2026Article
- Association of mainly vegetarian and vegan diets with loneliness, social isolation and social withdrawal in a German population survey.PloS one · 2026Article
- Impact of Diverse Dietary Patterns on Cognitive Health: Cumulative Evidence from Prospective Cohort Studies.Nutrients · 2025Review
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- Association between plant-based dietary patterns and dementia among Chinese older adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Diets to promote healthy brain ageing.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Impact of vegetarianism on cognition and neuropsychological status among urban community-dwelling adults in Telangana, South India: a cross-sectional study.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Plant-based dietary patterns and risk of insomnia: a prospective study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Vegetarian and vegan diets: benefits and drawbacks.European heart journal · 2023Article
- Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of dementia: a population-based study.Age and ageing · 2023Article
- Dietary Patterns and Alzheimer's Disease: An Updated Review Linking Nutrition to Neuroscience.Nutrients · 2023Review
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- Arrhythmia and other modifiable risk factors in incident dementia and MCI among elderly individuals with low educational levels in Taiwan.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The number of people living with dementia globally is increasing rapidly, and there is no effective therapy. Dietary pattern is one important risk factor for the development and progression of dementia. We undertake this study to determine whether Taiwanese vegetarian diet in midlife affects dementia incidence in later years in a prospective cohort. We followed 5710 participants (average age less than 60) in the Tzu Chi Vegetarian Study (TCVS). We started recruiting in 2005 and followed until the end of 2014 when the database changed from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM codes. The incidence of dementia was obtained through linkage to the National Health Insurance Research Database. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the hazard ratio of dementia between vegetarians and nonvegetarians. There were 121 cases of dementia (37 vegetarians and 84 nonvegetarians) diagnosed. Vegetarians were associated with reduced risk of clinically overt dementia compared with nonvegetarians (hazard ratio = 0.671, confidence interval: 0.452−0.996, p < 0.05) after adjusting for gender, age, smoking, drinking, education level, marriage, regular exercise, and comorbidities with stepwise regression.
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