Adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet is associated with a lower risk for mortality, cognitive decline, and dementia. Whether adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet protects against age-related frailty is unclear. Therefore, our objective was to examine the association between a Mediterranean-style diet with the risk of frailty in community-dwelling older persons. We conducted longitudinal analyses using data from 690 community-living persons (≥65 y) who were randomly selected from a population registry in Tuscany, Italy. Participants of the Invecchiare in Chianti study of aging completed the baseline examination in 1998-2000 and were re-examined at least once over 6 y. Adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet (scored 0-9, modeled categorically as ≤3, 4-5, and ≥6) was computed from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition FFQ previously validated in this cohort. Frailty was defined as having at least 2 of the following criteria: poor muscle strength, feeling of exhaustion, low walking speed, and low physical activity. After a 6-y follow-up, higher adherence (score ≥6) to a Mediterranean-style diet was associated with lower odds of developing frailty [OR = 0.30 (95% CI: 0.14, 0.66)] compared with those with lower adherence (score ≤3). A higher adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet at baseline was also associated with a lower risk of low physical activity (OR = 0.62; 95% CI: 0.40, 0.96) and low walking speed [OR = 0.48 (95% CI: 0.27, 0.86)] but not with feelings of exhaustion and poor muscle strength. In community-dwelling older adults, higher adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet was inversely associated with the development of frailty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","mots_cles":[],"class_list":["post-35595","resume","type-resume","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"adresse":"Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. sameera.talegawkar@alumni.tufts.edu\r\n\r\n","annee":"2012","mois":"12","numero":"142:12","page":"2161-2166","auteurs":[{"ID":18086,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 20:00:16","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:00:16","post_content":"","post_title":"Sameera A Talegawkar","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sameera-a-talegawkar","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 20:00:16","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:00:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/sameera-a-talegawkar\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":20336,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 20:34:39","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:34:39","post_content":"","post_title":"Stefania Bandinelli","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"stefania-bandinelli","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 20:34:39","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 19:34:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/stefania-bandinelli\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":35594,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-04 00:46:30","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 23:46:30","post_content":"","post_title":"Bandeen-Roche","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bandeen-roche","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-04 00:46:30","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 23:46:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/auteur\/bandeen-roche\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"auteur_resume","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"sources":[{"ID":32402,"post_author":"0","post_date":"2018-12-03 23:58:36","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:58:36","post_content":"","post_title":"J NUTR","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"j-nutr-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-12-03 23:58:36","post_modified_gmt":"2018-12-03 22:58:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/aprifel-pp.mentalworks.biz\/fr\/source\/j-nutr-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"source","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n