Rationale and design of feeding America's bravest: Mediterranean diet-based intervention to change firefighters' eating habits and improve cardiovascular risk profiles

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 101-107

  Sotos Prieto, Mercedes ^a,b   Cash, Sean B ^c   Christophi, Costas ^d   Folta, Sara ^c   Moffatt, Steven ^e   Muegge, Carolyn ^e   Korre, Maria ^a   Mozaffarian, Dariush ^c   Kales, Stefanos N ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^e National Institute for Public Safety Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Firefighters; Mediterranean diet; Randomized control trial; Workplace

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYTYROSOL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TYROSOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; DIETARY INTAKE; EATING HABIT; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FIRE FIGHTER; FOLLOW UP; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MODIFIED MEDITERRANEAN DIET SCORE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFORCEMENT; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WORKPLACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR;

BIOMARKERS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85026676912     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.07.010     Document Type: Article

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