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Modified Mediterranean diet and survival
— EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study | | Author(s) | Antonia Trichopoulou |
| Corporate Author | EPIC-Elderly Prospective Study Group |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 330, no 7498, 30 April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 991-995 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Diet ; Longevity ; Social surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Small cohort studies have shown that Mediterranean type diets increase longevity. This study was conducted in nine European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Participants were 74,607 men and women aged 60+, without coronary heart disease, stroke or cancer at enrolment, and with complete information about dietary intake. Estimates of adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet used a scoring system on a 10-point scale; death from any cause by time of occurrence was modelled through Cox regression. An increase in the modified diet score was associated with lower overall mortality. No statistically significant evidence of heterogeneity was found for countries in the association of the score with overall mortality, even though the association was stronger in Greece and Spain. When dietary exposures were calibrated across countries, the reduction in mortality was 7% (1% to 12%). Thus, a dietary pattern that resembles that of the Mediterranean is associated with lower overall death rate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050504202 A |
| Classmark | CFD: BGA: 3F: 74 * |
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