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We examined these associations across three primary ageing cohorts and explored links between dietary components and frailty domains.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The primary sample included 8628 older adults from Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Overall, healthful and unhealthful plant-based diet indices (PDIs, hPDIs and uPDIs) were derived from cohort-specific food-group data. A supplementary analysis of 10 821 SHARE participants used a two-component plant\u2013animal contrast. Frailty was assessed using a multidomain deficit-accumulation index. Generalised linear mixed models examined diet\u2013frailty associations, and Mundlak decomposition separated between-person differences from within-person changes where repeated diet data were available. Spline and network analyses examined non-linearity and component-level associations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Higher PDI was associated with lower frailty risk across all three primary cohorts (ORs\u2009=\u20090.71\u20130.80), whereas higher uPDI was associated with higher risk (ORs\u2009=\u20091.24\u20131.41). hPDI was inversely associated only in ELSA and was null in CLHLS and HRS. In CLHLS, between-person dietary differences showed stronger associations than within-person changes. Spline analysis provided limited evidence of non-linearity. Network analyses highlighted nuts, vegetables and plant oils as showing predominantly inverse associations with several frailty domains. SHARE analysis showed an inverse between-person association, no within-person association, with the plant-based component also showing predominantly inverse links with frailty domains.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Higher overall plant-based diet scores were associated with lower frailty risk, whereas unhealthful plant-based diets were associated with higher risk, underscoring the importance of diet quality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ageing\/afag304","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,21]],"date-time":"2026-10-21T15:50:40Z","timestamp":1792597840000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Plant-based dietary patterns and frailty in older adults: a multicohort longitudinal study with within-between decomposition and network analysis"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"55","author":[{"given":"Jiaci","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University , Nanjing, Jiangsu ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jipeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University , Nanjing, Jiangsu ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University , Nanjing, Jiangsu ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liuna","family":"Geng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University , Nanjing, Jiangsu ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2145","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(15)00516-4","article-title":"The world report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing","volume":"387","author":"Beard","year":"2016","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e789","DOI":"10.1016\/S2666-7568(22)00200-8","article-title":"WHO working definition of vitality capacity for healthy longevity monitoring","volume":"3","author":"Bautmans","year":"2022","journal-title":"Lancet Healthy Longev"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"538","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMra2301292","article-title":"Frailty in older adults","volume":"391","author":"Kim","year":"2024","journal-title":"N Engl J Med"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1293","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMp2016814","article-title":"Health in aging-past, present, and future","volume":"383","author":"Fried","year":"2020","journal-title":"N Engl J Med"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.lanhl.2025.100745","article-title":"Prevalence of frailty and associated socioeconomic factors in people experiencing homelessness in England: cross-sectional secondary analysis of health needs survey data","volume":"6","author":"Dawes","year":"2025","journal-title":"Lancet Healthy Longev"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.1093\/ageing\/afaa219","article-title":"Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies","volume":"50","author":"O'Caoimh","year":"2021","journal-title":"Age Ageing"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e214","DOI":"10.1016\/S2666-7568(23)00263-5","article-title":"The relationship between frailty and social vulnerability: a systematic review","volume":"5","author":"Hanlon","year":"2024","journal-title":"Lancet Healthy Longev"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.lanhl.2025.100740","article-title":"Association between hospital frailty risk score and length of hospital stay, hospital mortality, and hospital costs for all adults in England: a nationally representative, retrospective, observational cohort study","volume":"6","author":"Street","year":"2025","journal-title":"Lancet Healthy Longev"},{"key":"2026102111503584100_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12877-023-04309-y","article-title":"Reversing frailty in older adults: a scoping review. 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