Pallapothu Raghav, Newman-Norlund Roger D, Gibson Makayla, Kannan Pranesh Rajesh, Pallapothu Sriya, Rorden Chris, Bonilha Leonardo, Fridriksson Julius
Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States.
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States.
Front Nutr. 2025 Jun 16;12:1608995. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1608995. eCollection 2025.
Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) are associated with significance societal costs and economic burdens. Prior research has found that ADRD is associated with decreases in cortical gray matter volume (GMV) in the hippocampus.
This exploratory cross-sectional study investigates the relationship between total dietary fiber concentration and regional GMV in a cohort of 190 healthy adults aged 20 to 79 years who completed the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Supplement and T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as part of the University of South Carolina's Aging Brain Cohort (ABC) study. Hippocampal gray matter volume was quantified using the CAT12 voxel-based morphometry toolbox, using Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient.
Our exploratory analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between dietary fiber consumption and GMV in the right hippocampus and right parahippocampal gyrus, when controlling for age, race, sex, and median household income within participant zip code. Dietary fiber was also correlated with the MoCA attention/concentration and language subscores.
These data are compatible with the hypothesis that dietary fiber may exert neuroprotective effects, and this may have implications for dietary recommendations aimed at reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
阿尔茨海默病及相关痴呆症(ADRD)会带来巨大的社会成本和经济负担。先前的研究发现,ADRD与海马体皮质灰质体积(GMV)减少有关。
这项探索性横断面研究调查了190名年龄在20至79岁之间的健康成年人队列中膳食纤维总浓度与区域GMV之间的关系,这些成年人完成了2015年国家健康访谈调查补充问卷以及作为南卡罗来纳大学衰老大脑队列(ABC)研究一部分的T1加权磁共振成像(MRI)。使用CAT12基于体素的形态计量学工具箱,通过斯皮尔曼等级相关系数对海马体灰质体积进行量化。
在控制参与者邮政编码内的年龄、种族、性别和家庭收入中位数后,我们的探索性分析显示,膳食纤维摄入量与右侧海马体和右侧海马旁回的GMV之间存在显著正相关。膳食纤维还与蒙特利尔认知评估量表(MoCA)的注意力/专注力和语言子分数相关。
这些数据与膳食纤维可能发挥神经保护作用的假设相符,这可能对旨在降低阿尔茨海默病及相关痴呆症风险的饮食建议具有启示意义。