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Mediterranean DietMay Help PreventDeath After HeartDisease
The rock star of all diets theMediterranean diet has been linked to alower risk of everything from diabetes todementia Itrsquos famously good for theheartndashpeople who stick to aMediterranean diet over the years havemarkedly lower risk of heart disease thannonshypartakers But a new study now alsoshows that for people who already haveheart disease eating a Mediterranean dietlowers the risk of mortality in the years tocome And as some have suggested thebenefit that comes from the diet may beeven greater than that from one of themost common heart treatmentsndashstatins
As Author Giovanni de Gaetano said in astatement ldquoMany scientific studies haveshown that a traditional Mediterraneanlifestyle is associated with a lower risk ofvarious chronic diseases and more
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importantly of death from any cause Butso far research has focused on the generalpopulation which is mainly composed ofhealthy people What happens to peoplewho have already suffered fromcardiovascular disease Is theMediterranean diet optimal for them toordquo
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To answer this question he and his teamlooked at data from a longshyterm studycalled the Molishysani project whichincluded 25000 people living in theItalian region of Molise Just under 1200of the participants had heart disease goingin In the food arena people answeredquestions that allowed the researchers todetermine how closely (or not) theyfollowed a Mediterranean diet whichgenerally includes a lot of vegetablesfruits fish whole grains nuts and oliveoil Itrsquos lower in dairy meat and sweetsbut usually includes a little wine
In the sevenshyyear study period there were208 deaths
It turned out that for each twoshypoint jumpin a personrsquos Mediterranean diet scorethere was an associated 21 reduced riskof dying over the course of those sevenyears And the researchers broke itdown another way They dividedparticipants into thirds according to how
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closely they followed the Mediterraneandiet they found that those in the highestshyadherence group had a 37 lower risk ofmortality than those in the lowest Theseresults were true after the team controlledfor confounding variables like age sexcalorie intake blood pressure cholesterollevel egg and potato intake exercisewaistshytoshyhip ratio smoking status andhaving other health problems when thestudy started
They also looked at the individual foodsthat were linked to a reduced risk of deathldquoThe major contributors to mortality riskreduction were a higher consumption ofvegetables fish fruits nuts andmonounsaturated fatty acidsndashthat meansolive oilrdquo said Bonaccio
There are of course both strengths andweaknesses to the study One of theformer is that it was prospective studymeaning that it followed people over timeasking them to report on their diets andother lifestyle habits moving forwardrather than asking them to recount thisinformation from memory which isalways risky But a drawback is that it maynot have been long enough or largeenough to draw reliable conclusions Itrsquosalso not been published in a peershyreview
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importantly of death from any cause Butso far research has focused on the generalpopulation which is mainly composed ofhealthy people What happens to peoplewho have already suffered fromcardiovascular disease Is theMediterranean diet optimal for them toordquo
Shutterstock
To answer this question he and his teamlooked at data from a longshyterm studycalled the Molishysani project whichincluded 25000 people living in theItalian region of Molise Just under 1200of the participants had heart disease goingin In the food arena people answeredquestions that allowed the researchers todetermine how closely (or not) theyfollowed a Mediterranean diet whichgenerally includes a lot of vegetablesfruits fish whole grains nuts and oliveoil Itrsquos lower in dairy meat and sweetsbut usually includes a little wine
In the sevenshyyear study period there were208 deaths
It turned out that for each twoshypoint jumpin a personrsquos Mediterranean diet scorethere was an associated 21 reduced riskof dying over the course of those sevenyears And the researchers broke itdown another way They dividedparticipants into thirds according to how
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closely they followed the Mediterraneandiet they found that those in the highestshyadherence group had a 37 lower risk ofmortality than those in the lowest Theseresults were true after the team controlledfor confounding variables like age sexcalorie intake blood pressure cholesterollevel egg and potato intake exercisewaistshytoshyhip ratio smoking status andhaving other health problems when thestudy started
They also looked at the individual foodsthat were linked to a reduced risk of deathldquoThe major contributors to mortality riskreduction were a higher consumption ofvegetables fish fruits nuts andmonounsaturated fatty acidsndashthat meansolive oilrdquo said Bonaccio
There are of course both strengths andweaknesses to the study One of theformer is that it was prospective studymeaning that it followed people over timeasking them to report on their diets andother lifestyle habits moving forwardrather than asking them to recount thisinformation from memory which isalways risky But a drawback is that it maynot have been long enough or largeenough to draw reliable conclusions Itrsquosalso not been published in a peershyreview
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closely they followed the Mediterraneandiet they found that those in the highestshyadherence group had a 37 lower risk ofmortality than those in the lowest Theseresults were true after the team controlledfor confounding variables like age sexcalorie intake blood pressure cholesterollevel egg and potato intake exercisewaistshytoshyhip ratio smoking status andhaving other health problems when thestudy started
They also looked at the individual foodsthat were linked to a reduced risk of deathldquoThe major contributors to mortality riskreduction were a higher consumption ofvegetables fish fruits nuts andmonounsaturated fatty acidsndashthat meansolive oilrdquo said Bonaccio
There are of course both strengths andweaknesses to the study One of theformer is that it was prospective studymeaning that it followed people over timeasking them to report on their diets andother lifestyle habits moving forwardrather than asking them to recount thisinformation from memory which isalways risky But a drawback is that it maynot have been long enough or largeenough to draw reliable conclusions Itrsquosalso not been published in a peershyreview
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