More Mediterranean diet benefits found
The Mediterranean diet has been proposed as a way to reduce dementia risk, but current evidence is"inconclusive" and is largely derived from small cohorts with limited dementia cases. Few studies have explored the interaction between diet and genetic risk of dementia, the investigators note.
Participants were aged 60 and older at recruitment. During mean follow-up of 9.1 years, 882 developed dementia. Using the PYRAMID score, the absolute risk of dementia in the low, medium, and high MedDiet adherence groups was 1.67%, 1.53%, and 1.21%, respectively. Moderate and high MedDiet adherence groups had 0.14% and 0.46% lower absolute risk of dementia than peers in the low MedDiet adherence group.
"However, it is not clear that this does not reflect the fact that they may have a generally more healthy lifestyle. Thus, it is not clear that such a diet itself reduces dementia risk, although it is plausible that it might do so," said Curtis.
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