ArticleNutrients2024
Risk Factors for a Higher Dietary Acid Load (Potential Renal Acid Load) in Free-Living Elderly in Poland.
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- The German LAKE-score reliably predicts urinary and dietary potential renal acid load: a three-armed translational study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
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backgroundDietary composition is one of the factors influencing the acid-base balance of the body by providing acid or base precursors. One of the methods for assessing the acid-forming potential of a diet is to calculate its potential renal acid load (PRAL). The aim of this study was to identify the sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors related to the PRAL.
methodsDietary intake was assessed among 133 individuals aged 70+ years using the three-day record method.
resultsThe average PRAL value was 15.7 mEq/day (range from -42.4 to +101.7). The diets of a majority of the participants (71.4%) had acid-forming potential (PRAL > 0). From a univariate analysis, the acid-forming potential of the diets was linked mainly to women (65.3% in PRAL > 0 group vs. 10.5% in PRAL < 0 group), people using dietary supplements, those who consumed alcohol, those who assessed their health as being at least good, people with osteoporosis, those hospitalized during the previous year, and those with rather lower physical activity.
conclusionsFrom a multivariate analysis, gender was the strongest predictor of an acid-forming diet, but the following also contributed: an average self-rated health status (compared to good), a good health status (compared to poor), alcohol drinking, hospitalization, lack of nutritional knowledge, and, to a lesser extent, non-frail status (compared to pre-frail). Therefore, more extensive nutritional education in the identified groups is required.
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