More than 50 years after the Seven Countries Study, a large number of epidemiological
studies have explored the relationship between the Mediterranean diet (MD) and health …

Background Intermediate hyperglycaemia (IH) is characterised by one or more
measurements of elevated blood glucose concentrations, such as impaired fasting glucose …

Lipoprotein(a) Concentration and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Nonvascular
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: It has been suggested that overall dietary patterns and not single
nutrients should be studied, since food items might have a synergistic and antagonistic effect …

Background Obesity has been recognised as an important contributing factor in the
development of various diseases, but comparative data on this condition are limited. We …

OBJECTIVE.: We sought to evaluate the accuracy of a diet score in relation to hypertension,
hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and obesity. METHODS.: A diet score (range 0–55) has …

The main objective of the report at hand was to gather available and authorized data, both
published and unpublished, on the nutrition and health situation in the countries of the …

Background and aims Visceral adiposity index (VAI) has been proposed as a marker of
visceral adipose tissue accumulation/dysfunction. Our aim was to evaluate potential …

We conducted a systematic review of the available studies that assessed the effect of a
Mediterranean diet in type 2 diabetes. We searched publications up to 30 November 2009 …

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the association of obesity with various markers of chronic
inflammation, in a population-based sample of 3042 adults. METHODS: During 2001–2002 …