ArticleNutrients2022
Cognitive Impairment Mediates the Association between Dietary Inflammation and Depressive Symptoms in the Elderly.
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- Nonlinear dose-response relationship between dietary inflammatory index and risk of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Overlooked cases of mild cognitive impairment: Implications to early Alzheimer's disease.Ageing research reviews · 2024Pooled it
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Abstract
The underlying mechanism in both cognitive impairment and depression was chronic inflammation, which could be reflected by the dietary inflammatory index (DII). However, the effect of cognitive impairment on the association between DII and depression was not clear. Therefore, in this study, we hypothesized that cognitive impairment could mediate the association between dietary inflammation and depressive symptoms. A total of 2550 participants aged ≥60 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2011-2014 were involved in the serial, cross-sectional study. Proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory diets were measured by DII. Cognitive impairment was measured by four dimensions, CERAD-immediate, CERAN-delayed, animal fluency test, and DSST. Depressive symptoms were measured by PHQ-9 scores. We found that a proinflammatory diet and cognitive impairment were both risk factors for depressive symptoms. An interaction between an inflammatory diet and cognitive impairment was detected (
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