Research News
BMJ
2017;
356
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j49
(Published 06 January 2017)
Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j49
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- Ingrid Torjesen
- Author affiliations - London
Older
people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume
over three years than those who did not follow the diet so closely, a
study published in Neurology has found.1
The
study included 967 Scottish people in the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936
aged around 70 without dementia, who completed a questionnaire about
their eating habits. Three years later 562 participants agreed to have a
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan, and 401 returned for a
second scan at about age 76.
