Inflammatory dietary patterns and depressive symptoms in Italian older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults are more susceptible to higher inflammatory levels and depression. Moreover, diet may influence inflammation as well as depression but no previous study examined whether inflammatory dietary patterns are related to depression in an older population. To investigate the longitudinal association between inflammatory dietary patterns (using reduced rank regression (RRR)) and depressive symptoms in a population sample of Italian older adults.

Methods

We included 827 participants (aged≥65years) at baseline in 1998. Follow-up measurements were collected after 3, 6 and 9years. We used RRR to identify inflammatory dietary patterns at baseline. The Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale was used to assess depressive symptoms by using continuo

SUBMITTER: Vermeulen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5937118 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature