A comprehensive meta-analysis on evidence of Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease: Are individual components equal?

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 3218-3232

  Grosso, Giuseppe ^a   Marventano, Stefano ^b   Yang, Justin ^c,d   Micek, Agnieszka ^e   Pajak, Andrzej ^e   Scalfi, Luca ^f   Galvano, Fabio ^g   Kales, Stefanos N ^c,h  

^a Integrated Cancer Registry of Catania Messina Siracusa Enna ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^h CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

fruit; legumes; olive oil; Prevention; prospective cohort studies; randomized controlled trials; vegetables

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; FRUITS; OILS AND FATS; OLIVE OIL; VEGETABLES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY HEART DISEASE; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; LEGUMES; PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DISEASES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; META ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 85019553659     PISSN: 10408398     EISSN: 15497852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2015.1107021     Document Type: Article

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