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But literature is limited on the role of diet-driven inflammation measured by the DII on incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease dementia (AD).<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We evaluated whether higher DII scores were associated with increased incidence of all-cause dementia and AD over 22.3 years of follow-up in the community-based Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Offspring cohort.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Observational longitudinal study in the FHS Offspring cohort. Dementia surveillance for present study: until 2020. Data were analyzed from December 2020 to June 2022. Participants completed a validated 126-item food frequency questionnaires (FFQ), administered at FHS examination cycle 7 (1998-2001) and examination cycle 5 (1991-1995), and\/or 6 (1995-1998). Individuals aged &lt;60 years, with prevalent dementia, no dementia follow-up, other relevant neurological diseases, and\/or no FFQ data were excluded.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Exposure<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A DII score (based on the published method by Shivappa et al. 2014) was created based on previous studies linking individual dietary factors to six inflammatory markers (i.e. C-reactive protein, interleukin (IL)-1\u03b2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha), consisting of 36 components. A cumulative DII score was calculated by averaging across a maximum of three FFQs.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Main outcomes and measures<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Incident all-cause dementia and AD.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We included 1487 participants (mean\u00b1SD, age in years 69 \u00b1 6; 53\u00b72% women; 31\u00b76% college graduates]). 246 participants developed all-cause dementia (including AD n=187) over a median follow up time of 13\u00b71 years. Higher DII scores were associated with an increased incidence of all-cause dementia and AD following adjustment for age and sex (Hazard ratio (HR) 1\u00b716, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1\u00b707 to 1\u00b725, p&lt;.001; HR 1\u00b716, 95% CI 1\u00b706 to 1\u00b726, p=.001). The relationships remained after additional adjustment for demographic, lifestyle, and clinical covariates (HR 1\u00b721, 95% CI 1\u00b710 to 1\u00b733, p&lt;0.001; HR1\u00b720, 95% CI1\u00b707 to 1\u00b735, p=.001).<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion and relevance<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Higher DII scores were associated with a higher risk of incident all-cause dementia and AD. Although these promising findings need to be replicated and further validated, our results suggest that diets which correlate with low DII scores may prevent late-life dementia.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2023.08.21.23294374","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,22]],"date-time":"2023-08-22T15:35:11Z","timestamp":1692718511000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Association between dietary inflammatory index score and incident dementia: results from the Framingham heart Study offspring cohort"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7392-9289","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Debora","family":"Melo van Lent","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8788-8732","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hannah Gokingco","family":"Mesa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7849-0180","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meghan I.","family":"Short","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8467-0938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mitzi M.","family":"Gonzales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8584-1455","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hugo J","family":"Aparicio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3735-0018","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joel","family":"Salinas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2389-8752","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Changzheng","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5567-3147","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paul F.","family":"Jacques","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8551-7778","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexa","family":"Beiser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6135-2622","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sudha","family":"Seshadri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6225-6656","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mini E.","family":"Jacob","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1391-9481","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jayandra J.","family":"Himali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2023082413200966000_2023.08.21.23294374v1.1","unstructured":"World Health Organization. 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