Bawaked, Rowaedh Ahmed, 1985-Schröder, Helmut, 1958-Ribas-Barba, LourdesIzquierdo-Pulido, MariaPérez-Rodrigo, CarmenFitó Colomer, MontserratSerra-Majem, Luis2018-05-242018-05-242017Bawaked RA, Schröder H, Ribas-Barba L, Izquierdo-Pulido M, Pérez-Rodrigo C, Fíto M. et al. Association of diet quality with dietary inflammatory potential in youth. Food Nutr Res. 2017 Jun 7;61(1):1328961. DOI: 10.1080/16546628.2017.13289611654-661Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/34713Background: Diet plays a crucial role in the regulation of chronic inflammation. The sparse evidence available in adult populations indicates that diet quality is linked to the dietary inflammatory potential; however, this association has not been established in youth. Design: Data were obtained from a representative national sample of 2889 children and young people in Spain, aged 6-24 years. The dietary inflammatory potential was measured by the dietary inflammatory index (DII), and diet quality by three conceptually different measures: the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index for children and adolescents (KIDMED), energy density, and total dietary antioxidants capacity. Results: The mean DII was 1.96 ± 0.76 units Scoring for the KIDMED index and the total dietary antioxidant capacity significantly decreased (p < 0.001 and p = 0.030, respectively) across quintiles of the DII, whereas the opposite was true for energy density (p < 0.001). The effect size of these associations was strongest for energy density, followed by the KIDMED index and total dietary antioxidant capacity. Conclusion: A healthy diet characterized by high adherence to the Mediterranean diet, high total dietary antioxidant capacity, or low energy density was linked to greater anti-inflammatory potential of the diet, as measured by the DII.application/pdfengCopyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Infants -- AlimentacióDieta -- Mediterrània, Regió de lainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16546628.2017.1328961Dietary inflammatory indexKIDMEDAdolescentsChildrenEnKidEnergy densityTotal dietary antioxidantinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess