Mediterranean diet and health status: an updated meta-analysis and a proposal for a literature-based adherence score
To update previous meta-analyses of cohort studies that investigated the association between the Mediterranean diet and health status and to utilize data coming from all of the cohort studies for proposing a literature-based adherence score to the Mediterranean diet. We conducted a comprehensive lit...
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| Vydáno v: | Public health nutrition Ročník 17; číslo 12; s. 2769 - 2782 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
01.12.2014
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| ISSN: | 1368-9800, 1475-2727, 1475-2727 |
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| Shrnutí: | To update previous meta-analyses of cohort studies that investigated the association between the Mediterranean diet and health status and to utilize data coming from all of the cohort studies for proposing a literature-based adherence score to the Mediterranean diet.
We conducted a comprehensive literature search through all electronic databases up to June 2013.
Cohort prospective studies investigating adherence to the Mediterranean diet and health outcomes. Cut-off values of food groups used to compute the adherence score were obtained.
The updated search was performed in an overall population of 4 172 412 subjects, with eighteen recent studies that were not present in the previous meta-analyses.
A 2-point increase in adherence score to the Mediterranean diet was reported to determine an 8 % reduction of overall mortality (relative risk = 0·92; 95 % CI 0·91, 0·93), a 10 % reduced risk of CVD (relative risk = 0·90; 95 % CI 0·87, 0·92) and a 4 % reduction of neoplastic disease (relative risk = 0·96; 95 % CI 0·95, 0·97). We utilized data coming from all cohort studies available in the literature for proposing a literature-based adherence score. Such a score ranges from 0 (minimal adherence) to 18 (maximal adherence) points and includes three different categories of consumption for each food group composing the Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean diet was found to be a healthy dietary pattern in terms of morbidity and mortality. By using data from the cohort studies we proposed a literature-based adherence score that can represent an easy tool for the estimation of adherence to the Mediterranean diet also at the individual level. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1368-9800 1475-2727 1475-2727 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1368980013003169 |