Mediterranean diet, cardiovascular health and longevity: Strategies to improve the assessment and interpretation of this dietary pattern in nutritional epidemiology ...

• Main Author: Tognon, Gianluca
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Westminster 2020
• Subjects: Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.34737/v3v3q; https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/v3v3q/mediterranean-diet-cardiovascular-health-and-longevity-strategies-to-improve-the-assessment-and-interpretation-of-this-dietary-pattern-in-nutritional-epidemiology

Introduction - Adherence to the Mediterranean diet, could reduce the risk of mortality and CVD across the life course. However, its epidemiological instrumentation needs to be contextualized and adapted to local cultures. Moreover, there is evidence that typical dairy products should be disaggregated in the MDS due to divergent health properties. Methods - The Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP), the Northern Sweden MONICA, the H70 elderly study, the Copenhagen MONICA study, and the IDEFICS EU children study were included. A refined version of the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) was calculated from diet histories (H70), FFQs (VIP), and food records (MONICA-Copenhagen) by including foods that better describe the context of a genuine Mediterranean diet (e.g., wholegrain instead of total cereals) and ingredients from mixed dishes. Cox models, adjusted for potential confounders, were used to compare the original and refined MDS and their associations with mortality, CVD incidence, and mortality. Adjusted Cox ...