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This study aimed to investigate the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between dietary intake and MRI-defined effusion-synovitis (ES) in knees at risk of KOA.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This was a secondary analysis based on the Pivotal OAI MR Imaging Analyses incidence OA (POMA_INCOA) sub-cohort. Dietary exposures were derived from the Block Brief 2000 food frequency questionnaire. The primary outcomes were baseline ES volume and 12-month change in ES volume (\u0394ES). Linear mixed-effects models with participant-specific random intercepts were used to account for within-subject correlation due to bilateral knees. Models were adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, baseline ES volume (for longitudinal models), and Kellgren-Lawrence grade (KLG). Sensitivity analyses included additional adjustment for physical activity and diabetes, as well as alternative outcome specifications (winsorization and categorical progression models).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 659 knees from 620 participants were analyzed. In cross-sectional analyses, a higher intake of meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and legumes was significantly associated with a larger baseline ES volume (\u03b2 = 0.452, 95% CI: 0.075 to 0.829, p = 0.019), though this association did not retain statistical significance after stringent FDR correction (FDR-adjusted p &amp;gt; 0.050). In longitudinal analyses, no dietary variables, including percentage of energy from fat (\u03b2 = \u22120.005, 95% CI: \u22120.150 to 0.006, p = 0.383), demonstrated a statistically significant association with 12-month \u0394ES. This lack of longitudinal association remained consistent across all sensitivity analyses, including models adjusted for physical activity and diabetes, and those using winsorized or binary progression outcomes (all p &amp;gt; 0.05).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>While specific protein-rich food groups are cross-sectionally linked to baseline synovial inflammation volume, dietary factors are not robustly associated with the short-term progression of effusion-synovitis in knees at risk of KOA. These findings suggest that dietary intake may correlate with the inflammatory \u201cset-point\u201d of the joint but has limited influence on active 12-month inflammatory fluctuations, highlighting the complexity of inflammatory mechanisms in early KOA.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fragi.2026.1877396","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,29]],"date-time":"2026-07-29T05:58:32Z","timestamp":1785304712000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Dietary factors and MRI-Defined synovial inflammation progression in knee osteoarthritis: a longitudinal mixed-effects analysis from the osteoarthritis initiative"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Yin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Trauma Orthopedics Center, Wuhan Fourth Hospital","place":["Wuhan, Hubei, China"]},{"name":"Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Orthopaedics","place":["Wuhan, Hubei, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Trauma Orthopedics Center, Wuhan Fourth Hospital","place":["Wuhan, Hubei, China"]},{"name":"Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Orthopaedics","place":["Wuhan, Hubei, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"39","DOI":"10.1016\/j.joca.2025.10.008","article-title":"Osteoarthritis year in review 2025: rehabilitation and outcomes including sex and gender reporting","volume":"34","author":"Bruder","year":"2026","journal-title":"Osteoarthr. 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