Beneficial Effects of Nut Consumption on Cognitive Function Among Elderly: Findings From a 6-Year Cohort Study
Li F, Jiang W, Wang J, Zhang T, Gu X, Zhai Y, Wu M, Xu L, Lin J
Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 8 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Food frequency questionnaire
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Government
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
- Grants
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ19H260001)
Based on 2 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2022-04-13 · Front Aging Neurosci · vol. 14 · p. 816443
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Cited
- 17 citations · more than 78% of similar papers · 1.4× the field average
- References
- 35 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nuts composition and effects · Nutrition and Health in Aging · Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
- Keywords
- Cognition, Cohort, Consumption (sociology), Nut, Gerontology, Cohort study, Medicine, Environmental health, Psychology, Internal medicine, Psychiatry, Engineering
9 authors
From CN
- Fudong LiZhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Weiping Jiang
- Junbiao Wang
- Tao ZhangZhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Xue Fan GuZhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Yujia ZhaiZhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
Objective
To evaluate the longitudinal association of nut consumption with cognitive function in Chinese elderly.
Methods
We analyzed the data from Zhejiang Ageing and Health Cohort Study including 9,028 participants. Nut consumption was evaluated in baseline questionnaire beginning at 2014. Cognitive function was assessed repeatedly through the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) at baseline and three waves of follow-up (2015, 2016, and 2019-2020). Cognitive impairment was defined using education-specific cut-off points. Log-binomial regression models with the generalized estimating equations, controlled for an extensive range of potential confounders, were utilized to evaluate the association and estimate relative risk (RR).
Results
After 6 years of follow-up, 3,266 (36.18%) participants were indicated as cognitive impairment by MMSE at least once. Compared with non-consumers or less-than-weekly consumers, participants consuming ≥70 g/week of nuts had 17% lower risks of cognitive impairment (RR = 0.83, 95% CI 0.75-0.91), whereas no association was found in those consuming <70 g/week of nuts. Moreover, relatively infrequent higher-amount consuming (≥70 g within one consuming day each week) was not associated with better cognitive performance. Furthermore, we did not observe significant effect modification caused by frequency of other food intake.
Conclusion
Higher nut consumption was prospectively related to a lower risk of cognitive impairment in Chinese elderly.
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