Role of fibre and fruit in the Mediterranean diet to protect against myocardial infarction: a case–control study in Spain
| Autor: | Manuel Serrano-Martínez, C Brugarolas-Brufau, E Martínez-Losa, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Elena Fernández-Jarne, M Prado-Santamaría |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Dietary Fiber
Male medicine.medical_specialty Food intake Mediterranean diet Myocardial Infarction Medicine (miscellaneous) Diet Surveys Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health Odds Ratio medicine Humans cardiovascular diseases Myocardial infarction Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Case-control study food and beverages Middle Aged medicine.disease Diet Surgery Spain Case-Control Studies Fruit Acute Disease Female business |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 56:715-722 |
| ISSN: | 1476-5640 0954-3007 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601382 |
| Popis: | To assess the association between a first acute myocardial infarction and the consumption of fibre and fruit.Hospital-based case-control study with incident cases. A validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (136 items) was used to assess food intake.Three third-level university hospitals in Pamplona (Spain).Cases were subjects aged under 80, newly diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction. Each case patient (n=171) was matched to a control subject of the same gender and age (5 y bands) admitted to the same hospital.An inverse association was apparent for the three upper quintiles of fibre intake. After adjustment for non-dietary and dietary confounders, an inverse linear trend was clearly significant, showing the highest relative reduction of risk (86%) for the fifth quintile (OR=0.14, 95% confidence interval: 0.03-0.67). An inverse association was also apparent for fruit intake, but not for vegetables or legumes.Our data suggest that a substantial part of the postulated benefits of the Mediterranean diet on coronary risk might be attributed to a high intake of fibre and fruit. |
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