Abstracts
Background/Objectives
To describe the associations of baseline dietary pattern scores with falls risk, bone mineral density (BMD), and incident fractures measured over 10 years in older adults.
Subjects/Methods
Dietary patterns were identified using exploratory factor analysis. Femoral neck (FN), hip, and lumbar spine (LS) BMD were measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, falls risk z-score using the Physiological Profile Assessment, and incident fractures by self-report. Linear mixed-effects models and log-binomial regression were used to estimate associations between baseline dietary pattern z-scores and outcomes.
Results
Of 1098 participants at baseline, 567 were retained over 10 years. Four dietary patterns were derived: fruit and vegetable (FV), animal protein (AP), snack, and Western. FV pattern reduced falls risk at baseline by β = 0.05–0.08/SD and the annual decreases of FN and hip BMD were less for higher Western or AP pattern scores in all populations and women. The annual increase in LS of the entire population was greater with higher scores of FV, AP, and Western patterns (all β = 0.001 g/cm2/year/SD, p < 0.05). Higher scores of FV and snack were associated with a higher risk of LS BMD increasing over 10 years (p < 0.05 for all, except snack pattern in men) and incident fracture was not associated with any dietary pattern in the overall cohort and both men and women separately.
Conclusions
An FV dietary pattern may be beneficial for reducing falls risk. The associations of dietary patterns and BMD are modest in magnitude and did not translate into an improved fracture risk. Associations between diet and LS BMD may reflect osteoarthritis rather than osteoporosis.
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National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (302204); Arthritis Foundation of Australia (MRI0616); Tasmanian Community Fund (D0015018); Masonic Centenary Medical Research Foundation; and University of Tasmania Institutional Research Grants Scheme (D0015019). HHN is supported by a scholarship of the University of Tasmania. FW is supported by a NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (APP1158661). GJ is supported by a Practitioner Fellowship, funded by the NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (1117037).
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Chief Investigator of TASOAC Study: GJ. Study design: GJ and TW. Manuscript writing, data analysis and data interpretation: HHN. Expertise in statistics: KW. Providing advice relating to dietary patterns: WO and TW. Revising manuscript content: All authors. Responsibility for the final manuscript for publication: GJ.
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Nguyen, H.H., Wu, F., Oddy, W.H. et al. Associations between dietary patterns and osteoporosis-related outcomes in older adults: a longitudinal study. Eur J Clin Nutr 75, 792–800 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-020-00806-0
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