Prospective association between dietary magnesium intake and physical performance in older women and men
Arias-Fernández L, Struijk EA, Caballero FF, Ortolá R, García-Esquinas E, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, Lopez-Garcia E, Lana A
European journal of nutrition · 11 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- European Commission
- University or hospital
- Universidad de Oviedo
- Government
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- Government
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Government
- Horizon 2020
- Government
- FP7 Health
- Grants
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (635316); FP7 Health (305483-2); European Commission (635316); Horizon 2020 (Project ID: 635316); European Commission (EU-H2020); Instituto de Salud Carlos III (20/1040); European Commission (H2020); Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU‐H2020); European Commission (305483); FP7 Health (Proposal No: 305483-2); Instituto de Salud Carlos III (H2020)
Based on 6 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2022-02-04 · Eur J Nutr · vol. 61 · issue 5 · pp. 2365–2373
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Cited
- 14 citations · more than 77% of similar papers · 1.3× the field average
- References
- 44 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Magnesium in Health and Disease · Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments · Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements
- Keywords
- Prospective cohort study, Medicine, Magnesium, Confidence interval, Magnesium deficiency (plants), Multivariate analysis, Dietary Reference Intake, Cohort study, Cohort, Gerontology, Demography, Physiology, Internal medicine, Nutrient, Biology
- MeSH
- humans, magnesium, diet, risk factors, prospective studies, aged, female, male, physical functional performance
8 authors
From ES
- Lucía Arias‐FernándezUniversidad de Oviedo; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Ellen A. StruijkCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Francisco Félix CaballeroCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Rosario OrtoláCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Esther García‐EsquinasCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Fernando Rodríguez‐ArtalejoMadrid Institute for Advanced Studies; IMDEA Food; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Abstract
Purpose
Magnesium is a profuse intracellular cation with a key role in muscle function and cellular senescence. The aim was to examine the prospective association between 5 year changes in dietary intake of magnesium and changes in physical performance among older men and women.
Methods
Prospective study conducted over 863 community-dwellers aged ≥ 65 years from the Seniors-ENRICA cohort (Spain). In 2012 and 2017, a validated computerized face-to-face diet history was used to record the consumption of up to 880 foods. From these data, we estimated changes in dietary magnesium intake. The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) was also conducted in both time points and we obtained changes in the score during follow-up, with positive values indicating physical performance improvement.
Results
Over 5 years of follow-up, an increase in magnesium intake was associated with an increment in the SPPB score among older women [multivariate β (95% confidence interval): 1.01 (0.49; 1.52), p-trend: 0.001]. In addition, changes from non-adherence to adherence to both estimated average requirement and recommended dietary allowance during follow-up period were associated with an increment in SPPB score among older women [1.14 (0.36; 1.92) and 0.84 (0.22; 1.47), respectively]. No significant associations between changes in magnesium intake and changes in SPPB score were observed in men.
Conclusions
Both increase of magnesium intake and change from non-adherence to adherence to dietary reference magnesium intake was prospectively associated with better physical performance among older women, but not among men.
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