Engy › Who's who in longevity › Claire McEvoy
At a glance
- Researcher at the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast.
- Studies how dietary patterns — especially the Mediterranean diet — relate to cognitive decline and dementia risk.
- Contributed to the PROMED-EX study: older adults followed a protein-enriched Mediterranean diet combined with exercise, to improve nutritional status and cognitive performance (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2026).
- Contributes to BRAIN-Diabetes, an adaptation of the Finnish FINGER approach (diet, exercise, cognitive training and risk-factor monitoring) for people living with diabetes.
- Her work starts from the observation that diet only pays off if people can stick with it in daily life, so she also tests how acceptable such programmes are.
- Relevant because she studies one of the best-supported ideas in longevity: that what you eat, together with exercise, helps determine how sharp your brain stays.
Recent
- Study BRAIN-Diabetes: Acceptability of an adapted FINGER multidomain intervention among adults living with diabetes
- Study Effect of a PROtein-enriched MEDiterranean diet and EXercise (PROMED-EX) on nutritional status and cognitive performance in older adults at risk of undernutrition and cognitive decline: the PROMED-EX randomized controlled trial