Background: The Experimental Dietary Inflammatory Profile is a new tool that evaluates the overall inflammatory potential of the diet by creating an empirical score based on food groups..
Aim The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between experimental inflammatory profile of diet and aerobic fitness in veteran athletes.
Methodology: The subjects included 100 male veteran athletes aged 45 and over, members of Jam city veterans' center, who were selected by available and targeted sampling in 2024. In order to measure the research variables, personal information questionnaire, FFQ food frequency questionnaire, Cooper's 12-minute test and anthropometric measurements including height, weight, waist circumference and hip circumference were used. Also, descriptive statistics methods, Klomogrove and Smirnov statistical tests, Pearson correlation coefficient test and independent t-test were used through SPSS version 26 computer software at a significance level of α=0.05.
Findings: The results of inferential statistics showed that there is a significant relationship between the experimental inflammatory profile of the diet and the state of aerobic fitness, BMI and WHR in active and inactive veteran athletes (P<0.05). However, there is no significant relationship between the experimental inflammatory profile of the diet and the state of the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference (WHR) in inactive veteran athletes (P<0.05). In addition, the findings showed that there is a significant difference between aerobic fitness profile and anthropometric indices in active and inactive veteran athletes (P<0.05). But there is no significant difference in the experimental inflammatory profile of the diet (P<0.05).
Conclusions: Based on the findings, the dietary inflammatory index (DII) can play an important role in determining the aerobic fitness status and body composition indicators of active and inactive veterans. Diets with high inflammatory potential c