Intakes of (n-3) fatty acids and fatty fish are not associated with cognitive performance and 6-year cognitive change in men participating in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2329-2336

  Van De Rest, Ondine ^a   Spiro III, Avron ^b   Krall Kaye, Elizabeth ^c   Geleijnse, Johanna M ^a   De Groot, Lisette C P G M ^a   Tucker, Katherine L ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAT INTAKE; FISH; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; VALIDITY; VELOCITY; VETERAN; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIETARY PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FISHES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEAT; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249096025     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.113647     Document Type: Article

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