Mediterranean diet related metabolite profiles and cognitive performance

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Evidence suggests that adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) affects human metabolism and may contribute to better cognitive performance. However, the underlying mechanisms are not clear.

OBJECTIVE: We generated a metabolite profile for adherence to MedDiet and evaluated its cross-sectional association with aspects of cognitive performance.

METHODS: A total of 1250 healthy Greek middle-aged adults from the Epirus Health Study cohort were included in the analysis. Adherence to the MedDiet was assessed using the 14-point Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS); cognition was measured using the Trail Making Test, the Verbal Fluency test and the Logical Memory test. A targeted metabolite profiling (n = 250 metabolites) approach was applied, using a high-throughput nuclear magnetic resonance platform. We used elastic net regularized regressions, with a 10-fold cross-validation procedure, to identify a metabolite profile for MEDAS. We evaluated the associations of the identified metabolite profile and MEDAS with cognitive tests, using multivariable linear regression models.

RESULTS: We identified a metabolite profile composed of 42 metabolites, mainly lipoprotein subclasses and fatty acids, significantly correlated with MedDiet adherence (Pearson r = 0.35, P-value = 5.5 × 10-37). After adjusting for known risk factors and accounting for multiple testing, the metabolite profile and MEDAS were not associated with the cognitive tests.

CONCLUSIONS: A plasma metabolite profile related to better adherence to the MedDiet was not associated with the tested aspects of cognitive performance, in a middle-aged Mediterranean population.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 42(2023), 2 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 173-181

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Papandreou, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Papagiannopoulos, Christos [VerfasserIn]
Koutsonida, Myrto [VerfasserIn]
Kanellopoulou, Afroditi [VerfasserIn]
Markozannes, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Polychronidis, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Tzakos, Andreas G [VerfasserIn]
Fragkiadakis, Georgios A [VerfasserIn]
Evangelou, Evangelos [VerfasserIn]
Ntzani, Evangelia [VerfasserIn]
Tzoulaki, Ioanna [VerfasserIn]
Aretouli, Eleni [VerfasserIn]
Tsilidis, Konstantinos K [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cognition
Executive function
Journal Article
Mediterranean diet
Memory
Metabolomics
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.02.2023

Date Revised 26.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clnu.2022.12.012

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351104631