Cognitive function in a middle aged cohort is related to higher quality dietary pattern 5 and 25 years earlier: the CARDIA study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preserving cognitive function is an important public health issue. We investigated whether dietary pattern associates with cognitive function in middle-age.

Methods

We studied 2435 participants in the community-based Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study of black and white men and women aged 18-30 in 1985-86 (year 0, Y0). We hypothesized that a higher A Priori Diet Quality Score, measured at Y0 and Y20, is associated with better cognitive function measured at Y25. The diet score incorporated 46 food groups (each in servings/day) as the sum of quintile ranks of food groups rated beneficial, 0 for food groups rated neutral, and reversed quintile ranks for food groups rated adverse; higher score indicated better diet quality. Y25 cognitive t

SUBMITTER: Zhu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5466430 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature