Akbaraly, T;
Sexton, C;
Zsoldos, E;
Mahmood, A;
Filippini, N;
Kerleau, C;
Michel Verdier, J;
... Kivimaki, M; + view all
(2018)
Association of long-term diet quality with hippocampal volume: longitudinal cohort study.
The American Journal of Medicine
, 131
pp. 1372-1381.
10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.07.001.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Diet quality is associated with brain aging outcomes. However, few studies have explored in humans the brain structures potentially affected by long-term diet quality. We examined whether cumulative average of Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) score during adult life (an 11-year exposure period) is associated with hippocampal volume. METHODS: Analyses were based on 459 participants of the Whitehall Brain Imaging substudy (mean age 59.6[SD=5.3] years in 2002/04, 19.2% women). Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging examination was performed at the end of follow-up (2015-16). Structural images were acquired using a high-resolution 3-dimensional T1-weighted sequence and processed with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Software Library (FSL) tools. An automated model-based segmentation/registration tool was applied to extract hippocampal volumes. RESULTS: Higher AHEI-2010 cumulative average score (reflecting long-term healthy diet quality) was associated with a larger total hippocampus volume. For each 1 standard deviation (SD, 8.7 points) increment in AHEI-2010, an increase of 92.5mm3 (SE=42.0mm3) in total hippocampal volume was observed. This association was independent of socio-demographic factors, smoking habits, physical activity, cardio-metabolic health factors, cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms, and was more pronounced in left hippocampus than in right hippocampus . Of the AHEI-2010 components, no or light alcohol consumption was independently associated with larger hippocampus volume. CONCLUSIONS: Higher long-term AHEI-2010 scores were associated with larger hippocampal volumes. Accounting for the importance of hippocampal structures in several neuropsychiatric diseases, our findings reaffirm the need to consider adherence to healthy dietary recommendation in multi-interventional programs to promote healthy brain aging.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Association of long-term diet quality with hippocampal volume: longitudinal cohort study |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.07.001 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.07.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Alternative Healthy Eating Index, Dietary Indices, Hippocampal volume, Older adults, Prospective study |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054139 |
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