Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet

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Ramón Estruch · Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition

Emilio Ros

Valentina Ruíz-Gutiérrez

Miquel Fiol

José Lapetra

Rosa M. Lamuela‐Raventós

Abstract

Among persons at high cardiovascular risk, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts reduced the incidence of major cardiovascular events. (Funded by the Spanish government's Instituto de Salud Carlos III and others; Controlled-Trials.com number, ISRCTN35739639.).

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Nutritional Studies and Diet Diet and metabolism studies Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 368, Issue 14, pp. 1279-1290

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1200303

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