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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident frailty: Results from a longitudinal study
(2022)Objectives: The aim of the current prospective study was to examine the relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident frailty. Study design: 1075 Greek community-dwelling older adults from the ... -
Association between 9p21–23 Locus and Frailty in a Community-Dwelling Greek Population: Results from the Hellenic Longitudinal Investigation of Ageing and Diet
(2022)Background: Frailty is a complex geriatric syndrome arising from a combination of genetic and environmental factors and is associated with adverse health outcomes and mortality. A recent study reported an association between ... -
Diet Inflammatory Index and Dementia Incidence A Population-Based Study
(2021)Background and Objectives Aging is characterized by a functional shift of the immune system toward a proinflammatory phenotype. This derangement has been associated with cognitive decline and has been implicated in the ... -
Dietary Inflammatory Index score and prodromal Parkinson's disease incidence: The HELIAD study
(2022)The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of the inflammatory potential of diet with prodromal Parkinson's disease (pPD) probability and incidence among community-dwelling older individuals without ... -
The Effect of Depressive and Insomnia Symptoms in Quality of Life among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
(2022)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of depressive symptoms, insomnia symptoms, and comorbid depressive and insomnia symptoms on the quality of life among community-dwelling older adults in an urban ... -
Effects of an Individualized Active Aging Counseling Intervention on Mobility and Physical Activity: Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial
(2020)Objectives: The aim of this study was to report preplanned secondary analyses of the effects of a 12-month individualized active aging counseling intervention on six mobility and physical activity outcomes. Methods: A ... -
Food insecurity increases the risk of malnutrition among community-dwelling older adults
(2019)Objectives: To assess the prevalence of malnutrition and food insecurity (uncertainty, or limited ability to acquire acceptable foods through socially acceptable ways), among non-hospitalised, non-institutionalised, ... -
Frailty and Prodromal Parkinson's Disease: Results from the HELIAD Study
(2021)Background: To investigate the association between frailty, Parkinson's disease (PD), and the probability of prodromal Parkinson's disease (prodromal PD) in Greek community-dwelling older individuals. Methods: Parkinson's ... -
Malnutrition in older adults: Correlations with social, diet-related, and neuropsychological factors
(2020)BACKGROUND: The number of older adults is increasing rapidly. Malnutrition is a major problem in this age group, which may adversely affect health and quality of life. Several physiological, socioeconomic, and neuropsychological ... -
Parity and the risk of incident dementia: a COSMIC study
(2020)AIMS: To investigate the association between parity and the risk of incident dementia in women. METHODS: We pooled baseline and follow-up data for community-dwelling women aged 60 or older from six population-based, ... -
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Frailty in a Community-Dwelling Population: The HELIAD Study
(2020)Objective: To estimate the prevalence of frailty using five different instruments in a cohort of older adults and explore the association between frailty and various risk factors. Method: 1,867 participants aged 65 years ... -
Sex Differences in Frailty Incidence in Greek Community-Dwelling Older People: The HELIAD Study
(2022)Background: Previous frailty studies found higher prevalence of frailty in female than in male participants. This was mainly attributed to the fact that compared to men, women show increased longevity. Recent studies have ... -
Social life characteristics in relation to adherence to the Mediterranean diet in older adults: Findings from the Hellenic Longitudinal Investigation of Aging and Diet (HELIAD) study
(2020)Objective: The present study aimed to explore the associations between social life and adherence to a healthy dietary pattern, the Mediterranean diet (MD), in a population-representative cohort of older people.Design: ... -
The Tribulations of Trials: Lessons Learnt Recruiting 777 Older Adults into REtirement in ACTion (REACT), a Trial of a Community, Group-Based Active Aging Intervention Targeting Mobility Disability
(2020)Background: Challenges of recruitment to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and successful strategies to overcome them should be clearly reported to improve recruitment into future trials. REtirement in ACTion (REACT) is ...