Dietary patterns: A Mediterranean diet score and its relation to clinical and biological markers of cardiovascular disease risk

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 559-568

  Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Diet; Mediterranean; Score

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33745761946     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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