Combating inflammaging through a Mediterranean whole diet approach:the NU-AGE project's conceptual framework and design

Santoro, Aurelia, Pini, Elisa, Scurti, Maria, Palmas, Giustina, Berendsen, Agnes, Brzozowska, Anna, Pietruszka, Barbara, Szczecinska, Anna, Cano, Noël, Meunier, Nathalie, de Groot, C P G M, Feskens, Edith, Fairweather-Tait, Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-5569, Salvioli, Stefano, Capri, Miriam, Brigidi, Patrizia and Franceschi, Claudio and NU-AGE Consortium (2014) Combating inflammaging through a Mediterranean whole diet approach:the NU-AGE project's conceptual framework and design. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 136-137. pp. 3-13. ISSN 0047-6374

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Abstract

The development of a chronic, low grade, inflammatory status named "inflammaging" is a major characteristic of ageing, which plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of age-related diseases. Inflammaging is both local and systemic, and a variety of organs and systems contribute inflammatory stimuli that accumulate lifelong. The NU-AGE rationale is that a one year Mediterranean whole diet (considered by UNESCO a heritage of humanity), newly designed to meet the nutritional needs of the elderly, will reduce inflammaging in fully characterized subjects aged 65-79 years of age, and will have systemic beneficial effects on health status (physical and cognitive). Before and after the dietary intervention a comprehensive set of analyses, including omics (transcriptomics, epigenetics, metabolomics and metagenomics) will be performed to identify the underpinning molecular mechanisms. NU-AGE will set up a comprehensive database as a tool for a systems biology approach to inflammaging and nutrition. NU-AGE is highly interdisciplinary, includes leading research centres in Europe on nutrition and ageing, and is complemented by EU multinational food industries and SMEs, interested in the production of functional and enriched/advanced traditional food tailored for the elderly market, and European Federations targeting policy makers and major stakeholders, from consumers to EU Food & Drink Industries.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Musculoskeletal Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2014 14:12
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 01:18
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/49087
DOI:	10.1016/j.mad.2013.12.001

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