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The Longitudinal Association of Egg Consumption with Cognitive Function in Older Men and Women: The Rancho Bernardo Study
Kritz-Silverstein D, Bettencourt R
Nutrients · 10 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
- Industry funded
- Government
- National Institutes of Health
- Government
- National Institute on Aging
- Government
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Government
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Industry group
- American Egg Board’s Egg Nutrition Center
- Government
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders (NIDDK)
- Government
- NIDDK NIH HHS
- Government
- NIA NIH HHS
- Grants
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01 DK031801); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK-31801); National Institutes of Health (AG02850); National Institute on Aging (R37 AG007181); National Institute on Aging (R01 AG007181); National Institutes of Health (AG07181)
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Publication
- Published
- 2023-12-23 · Nutrients · vol. 16 · issue 1 · p. 53
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 9 citations · more than 87% of similar papers · 2.1× the field average
- References
- 46 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nutritional Studies and Diet · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- Verbal fluency test, Cognition, Medicine, Demography, Gerontology, Prospective cohort study, Cohort, Recall, Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance, Cohort study, Longitudinal study, Psychology, Internal medicine, Neuropsychology, Psychiatry
- MeSH
- humans, cognition, mental recall, aged, middle aged, female, male, independent living, memory, episodic
2 authors
From US
- Donna C. Kritz‐Silverstein · correspondingUniversity of California San Diego; Human Longevity (United States)
- Ricki BettencourtUniversity of California San Diego
Abstract
This study examines the prospective association of egg consumption with multiple domains of cognitive function in older, community-dwelling men and women followed for 16.3 years. Participants were 617 men and 898 women from the Rancho Bernardo Cohort aged 60 and older, who were surveyed about egg intake/week in 1972-1974, and attended a 1988-1991 research visit, where cognitive function was assessed with 12 tests. Analyses showed that egg intake ranged from 0-24/week (means: men = 4.2 ± 3.2; women = 3.5 ± 2.7; p p = 0.04), long-term (p = 0.02), and short-term (p = 0.05) recall. No significant associations were observed in women (p's > 0.05). Analyses showed that in those aged p 0.04) and the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE; p 0.02) in men and category fluency (p < 0.05) in women. Egg intake was not significantly associated with odds of poor performance on MMSE, Trails B, or category fluency in either sex. These reassuring findings suggest that there are no long-term detrimental effects of egg consumption on multiple cognitive function domains, and for men, there may be beneficial effects for verbal episodic memory. Egg consumption in middle age may also be related to better cognitive performance later in life.
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