Dietary patterns linked to favorable blood biomarkers relevant to aging

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Add as preferred source Volcano plots displaying the association between adherence to the reverse-transformed Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Index (rEDII) (per 1-SD increment) and blood-based biomarkers at the median (50th percentile) of the biomarkers' distributions. Credit: BMC Medicine (2026). DOI: 10.1186/s12916-026-05202-2 Researchers have long known that diet plays an important role in health later in life, but the biological mechanisms underlying these associations are not yet fully understood. In this study, researchers examined how different dietary patterns were associated with a broad range of blood biomarkers reflecting metabolism, inflammation, vascular health and neurodegenerative processes related to aging.