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Mediterranean diet slows atherosclerosis progression in PREDIMED

6 COMMENT S - Jun 3, 2013 19:30 EDT

High adherence to a Mediterranean diet, particularly one supplemented with nuts, appeared to slow the progression of atherosclerosis as measured by internal carotid artery intima-media thickness.

Lyon, France - High adherence to a Mediterranean diet appears to slow the progression of carotid plaque, a PREDIMED substudy suggests. Of note, investigators found an attenuation of plaque progression in the Mediterranean diet arm of the study that included supplementation with nuts and no such change in the other intervention arm, which included supplemental extra virgin olive oil.

This difference, however, may simply have been a product of limited sample size, Dr Aleix Sala-Vila (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain) said here today at the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) 2013 Congress.
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