The current greek diet and the omega-6/omega-3 balance: The mediterranean diet score is inversely associated with the omega-6/omega-3 ratio

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2011, Pages 53-56

  Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Kastorini, Christina Maria ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; DIET; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIET SURVEYS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; DIETARY FATS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLANT OILS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052068245     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000327791     Document Type: Article

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