Researchers, at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), have shown that maintaining a Mediterranean diet is associated with a lower risk of frailty, in older women with diabetes, after 28% of diabetics, with diet, had better results than those who did not follow it.
Mediterranean Diet
From the UAM, they have stressed the importance of this study, noting that diabetes accelerates the loss of muscle mass, something that is intensified by some drugs. Therefore, they added, people with diabetes are at increased risk of developing frailty, and any infection or new treatment can lead to a situation of hospitalization, disability or death.
The experts who signed the work have used data from 8,970 American women over 60 with a diagnosis of diabetes, whose case was followed for 22 years, identifying those who became "fragile".
Specifically, 28 per cent of the women, who maintained a pattern of the Mediterranean diet, suffered less risk of being fragile than those who did not follow it, as pointed out by the professor, in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the UAM, and first author of the study, Esther López-García. In addition, this beneficial effect was seen both in participants "totally healthy and robust and in those who already showed some sign of fragility”, she added.
Esther Lopez-Garcia
The director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and senior author of the study, Fernando Rodríguez Artalejo, recalled that the Mediterranean diet is nutritionally balanced and can be maintained over time, which also reduces the risk of obesity.
Fernando Rodriguez Artalejo
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