Background: The Southern European Atlantic Diet (SEAD) is the traditional diet in northern
Portugal and Galicia, a region in northwest Spain. Objective: The objective was to examine
the association between adherence to the SEAD and the occurrence of nonfatal acute
myocardial infarction (AMI). Design: This was a population-based case-control study in
Porto, Portugal. Cases were patients aged≥ 18 y who were hospitalized with an incident
AMI (n= 820), and controls were individuals without AMI selected at random from the …