Dietary patterns and changes in frailty status: the Rotterdam study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the associations between a priori and a posteriori derived dietary patterns and a general state of health, measured as the accumulation of deficits in a frailty index.

Methods

Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis embedded in the population-based Rotterdam Study (n = 2632) aged 45 years. Diet was assessed at baseline (year 2006) using food frequency questionnaires. Dietary patterns were defined a priori using an existing index reflecting adherence to national dietary guidelines and a posteriori using principal component analysis. A frailty index was composed of 38 health deficits and measured at baseline and follow-up (4 years later). Linear regression analyses were performed using adherence to each of the dietary patterns as exposure and the frailty

SUBMITTER: de Haas SCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182690 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature