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Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns

Abundant and growing evidence has accrued to demonstrate that the traditional Mediterranean diet is likely to be the ideal dietary pattern for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. A landmark randomized trial (PREDIMED) together with many well-conducted long-term observational prospective cohort...

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Autor principal: Martínez-González, Miguel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27737657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0714-3
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description Abundant and growing evidence has accrued to demonstrate that the traditional Mediterranean diet is likely to be the ideal dietary pattern for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. A landmark randomized trial (PREDIMED) together with many well-conducted long-term observational prospective cohort studies support this causal effect. A new, large British cohort study by Tong et al. assessing the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease was recently published in BMC Medicine. Using a superb methodology, they followed-up 23,902 participants for 12.2 years on average and observed several thousand incident cases. The results of this cohort study showed a significant beneficial effect of the Mediterranean diet on cardiovascular events. These findings support the transferability of this dietary pattern beyond the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The authors provided measures of population impact in cardiovascular prevention and estimated that 19,375 cases of cardiovascular death would be prevented each year in the UK by promoting the Mediterranean Diet. Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0677-4.
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spelling pubmed-50647792016-10-18 Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns Martínez-González, Miguel A. BMC Med Commentary Abundant and growing evidence has accrued to demonstrate that the traditional Mediterranean diet is likely to be the ideal dietary pattern for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. A landmark randomized trial (PREDIMED) together with many well-conducted long-term observational prospective cohort studies support this causal effect. A new, large British cohort study by Tong et al. assessing the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease was recently published in BMC Medicine. Using a superb methodology, they followed-up 23,902 participants for 12.2 years on average and observed several thousand incident cases. The results of this cohort study showed a significant beneficial effect of the Mediterranean diet on cardiovascular events. These findings support the transferability of this dietary pattern beyond the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The authors provided measures of population impact in cardiovascular prevention and estimated that 19,375 cases of cardiovascular death would be prevented each year in the UK by promoting the Mediterranean Diet. Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0677-4. BioMed Central 2016-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5064779/ /pubmed/27737657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0714-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns
title_fullStr Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns
title_full_unstemmed Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns
title_short Benefits of the Mediterranean diet beyond the Mediterranean Sea and beyond food patterns
title_sort benefits of the mediterranean diet beyond the mediterranean sea and beyond food patterns
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27737657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0714-3
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