Major achievement! Very happy for you 🙏

Thank you for your comment. We used between one and three FFQs over 6 years (not all participants answered all FFQs). The more questionnaires were used in the analyses, the stronger associations became, suggesting that any misclassification bias would be shifting results towards the null.

Many thanks for the interest in our work and many thanks for sharing 🙏

Many thanks for the interest in our work and many thanks for sharing 🙏

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We also published a popular science article in The Conversation. Feel free to read it 📖
theconversation.com/older-adults...

12/ 🔗 Want to know more or collaborate? DMs open or reach me at adrian.carballo.casla@ki.se #HealthyAging #Multimorbidity #Nutrition #Epidemiology #NatureAging

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We gratefully acknowledge funding from
@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social, FORTE, @ki.se, David and Astrid Hagelén Foundation, and the Foundation for Geriatric Diseases at KI. Tack! 🙏

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This work was made possible thanks to the support and collaboration of @ki.se, @ciberisciii.bsky.social, @uam.es, IMDEA nutrición, and @researchmar.bsky.social. Proud to be part of such a brilliant, interdisciplinary team across Sweden and Spain

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📄 The article appeared in Nature Aging today.
Co-led with David Abbad-Gomez and an amazing team including Giorgi Beridze, Davide Liborio Vetrano, and Amaia Calderón Larrañaga
Access the full paper at t.co/cey9CA3Gxi

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This is one of the longest and most comprehensive studies on diet and multimorbidity to date.
It supports the idea that healthy aging starts on the plate.

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Why does this matter?
Because multimorbidity is a key challenge in aging populations.
Our findings suggest that diet is a modifiable factor that could slow down this process—potentially improving quality of life and reducing healthcare burden.

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👵👴 Some effects were stronger in:
Females, especially for cardiovascular outcomes

The oldest old (78+), particularly for neuropsychiatric diseases

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🫀🧠 The strongest associations were seen for:
Cardiovascular diseases
Neuropsychiatric diseases
But not for musculoskeletal conditions.

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📉 The results?
Higher adherence to MIND, AHEI, and AMED diets = slower accumulation of chronic diseases.
Higher EDII scores = faster accumulation of diseases.
Diet quality matters—a lot.

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🍎 Diets we studied:
✅ MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay)
✅ AHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index)
✅ AMED (Alternative Mediterranean Diet)
❌ EDII (Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Index)

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We followed 2,473 older adults in Sweden for 15 years.
We looked at how their adherence to 4 dietary patterns affected the speed of multimorbidity accumulation—that is, how quickly they developed chronic diseases.