Mediterranean diet and metabolic syndrome: An updated systematic review

Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-263

  Esposito, Katherine ^a   Kastorini, Christina Maria ^b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^b   Giugliano, Dario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mediterranean diet; Metabolic syndrome; Nutritional epidemiology; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; EMBASE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

DIET, CARBOHYDRATE-RESTRICTED; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X;

EID: 84885586451     PISSN: 13899155     EISSN: 15732606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11154-013-9253-9     Document Type: Article

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