Quality, but not cost, of diet is associated with 5-year incidence of CVD: The ATTICA study

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1890-1897

  Vlismas, Konstantinos ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^b   Chrysohoou, Christina ^b   Skoumas, Yannis ^b   Sitara, Marietta ^a   Yfantopoulos, John ^c   Stavrinos, Vassilios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c National Centre for Social Research   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Diet cost; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIVE VALUE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79451471813     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010000649     Document Type: Article

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