Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Frailty

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 315-322.e2

  Ntanasi, Eva ^a   Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Kosmidis, Mary Helen ^b   Anastasiou, Costas A ^a   Dardiotis, Efthimios ^c   Hadjigeorgiou, Giorgos ^c   Sakka, Paraskevi ^d   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^e,f  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

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

^e NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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

Author keywords

frailty; Mediterranean diet; older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANDY; CEREAL; DAIRY PRODUCT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FRAILTY; FRUIT; GREECE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; LEGUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; VEGETABLE; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FRAIL ELDERLY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85039172839     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.11.005     Document Type: Article

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