Adherence to the Mediterranean food pattern predicts the prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and obesity, among healthy adults; the accuracy of the MedDietScore.

By D. Panagiotakos, C. Pitsavos, F. Arvaniti, Christodoulos Stefanadis. Preventive Medicine, 2007

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MIND diet slows cognitive decline with aging (2015, methodology): “We used serving quantities specific to the traditional Greek Mediterranean diet [3] to score M.”
Mediterranean diet and health status: an updated meta-analysis and a proposal for a literature-based adherence score (2013, methodology): “One example is that of Panagiotakos et al.(38) who created a simple questionnaire based on recommendations of the guidelines for a healthy diet and characterized by a few questions used for estimating the frequency of consumption (monthly or daily) of food groups more or less characteristic of the M”
MIND Diet Associated with Reduced Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease (2015, methodology): “The MedDiet Score was computed based on scoring described by Panagiotakos and colleagues [11].”
A short screener is valid for assessing Mediterranean diet adherence among older Spanish men and women. (2011, methodology): “(26) evaluated the performance of a modified PREDIMED score derived from a full-length FFQ to predict cardiovascular risk.”