Mediterranean diet and cognitive health: Initial results from the Hellenic Longitudinal Investigation of Ageing and Diet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Anastasiou, Costas A ^a,b   Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Kosmidis, Mary H ^c   Dardiotis, Efthimios ^d   Hadjigeorgiou, Giorgos M ^d   Sakka, Paraskevi ^e   Arampatzi, Xanthi ^c   Bougea, Anastasia ^b   Labropoulos, Ioannis ^f   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^b,g  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^e Athens Association of Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders   (Greece)

^f 'Biomedicine'   (Greece)

^g Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CEREAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GREECE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RISK REDUCTION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 85026545797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182048     Document Type: Article

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