Mediterranean diet related metabolite profiles and cognitive performance in a Greek population

Abstract Background 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 1,250 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..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 03. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

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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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.09.29.22280504

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XBI037442058