Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Frailty: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify currently available evidence on fruit and vegetable consumption in association with frailty by conducting a systematic review of the literature and to summarise and critically evaluate it.

Design

Systematic review.

Setting

Four electronic databases (Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL and PsycINFO) were systematically searched in August 2017 for observational cohort studies providing cross-sectional or prospective associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and frailty risks. Additional studies were searched by manually reviewing the reference lists of the included studies and related review papers and conducting forward citation tracking of the included studies. The methodological quality of prospective studies was assessed using the Newcastle-Otta

SUBMITTER: Kojima G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182506 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature