Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

By A. Trichopoulou, P. Orfanos, T. Norat, B. Bueno-de-Mesquita, Marga Ocke, P. Peeters, Y. T. van der Schouw, H. Boeing, K. Hoffmann, P. Boffetta and 33 more. British medical journal, 2005

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Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Physiology

1. D. Mozaffarian
2. C. Apovian
3. V. Basevi
4. Esther M. Sternberg
5. M. Bevans

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. D. Mozaffarian
2. P. M. Waijers
3. Rosanna Abbate
4. Gian Franco Gensini
5. F. Sofi
6. A. Casini
7. Marga Ocke
8. Edith J. M. Feskens

Citations in the corpus

• Nutrition Recommendations and Interventions for Diabetes (2008, background): “A modified Mediterranean diet, in which polyunsaturated fatty acids were substituted for monounsaturated fatty acids, reduced overall mortality in elderly Europeans by 7% (59).”
• Definitions and potential health benefits of the Mediterranean diet: views from experts around the world (2014, background): “Collectively, these studies have indicated convincing inverse associations with overall mortality [6] and with the incidence of coronary heart disease [7] and thrombotic stroke [8], compelling inverse associations with incidence of cancer overall [9,10] (including, possibly, incidence of breast [11]”
• Mediterranean diet and health status: an updated meta-analysis and a proposal for a literature-based adherence score (2013, positive): “The usefulness of these measures, the most common of which is certainly the Mediterranean dietary score created by Trichopoulou et al.(6), has been assessed in several longitudinal studies in association with different health outcomes(3).”
• Mediterranean diet, stroke, cognitive impairment, and depression: A meta‐analysis (2013, methodology): “The analysis through diet scores can capture the extremes of the nutritional exposures and incorporate possible dietary confounding in the score.(57) Two main indices, 1 with 9 components with the use of sex-specific median as cutoffs and a range from 0 (minimum adherence) to 9 (maximum adherence) a”
• A critical review of predefined diet quality scores (2007, background): “Patricia M. C. M. Waijers, Edith J. M. Feskens and Marga C. Ocké*”