Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Lower Abdominal Adiposity in European Men and Women

Contains fulltext : 79873.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Closed access) Given the lack of consistent evidence of the relationship between Mediterranean dietary patterns and body fat, we assessed the cross-sectional association between adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, BMI, and waist circumference (WC). A total of 497,308 individuals (70.7% women) aged 25-70 y from 10 European countries participated in this study. Diet was assessed at baseline using detailed validated country-specific questionnaires, and anthropometrical measurements were collected using standardized procedures. The asso... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Eiliv Lund
Pilar Amiano
Timothy J. Key
Anne M. May
Philippos Orfanos
Toni Braaten
E. A. Spencer
Manuela M. Bergmann
Rudolf Kaaks
Noémie Travier
Andreani D. Odysseos
Claudia Agnoli
Androniki Naska
Elisabet Wirfält
Teresa Norat
Domenico Palli
Elisabeth Couto
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Nicholas J. Wareham
Antonio Agudo
Jytte Halkjær
Frederike L. Büchner
Laudina Rodríguez
Vanessa Cottet
Anne Tjønneland
Heiner Boeing
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
Veronica Hellstrom
Dora Romaguera
Sabine Rohrmann
Aurelio Barricarte
Christina Bamia
Paolo Vineis
Marianne Uhre Jacobsen
Traci Mouw
Sabina Rinaldi
José María Huerta
Antonia Trichopoulou
Hervé Besson
Elio Riboli
Nadia Slimani
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Dragun Engeset
María José Sánchez
Kim Overvad
Ingegerd Johansson
Salvatore Panico
Petra H.M. Peeters
Rosario Tumino
Jian'an Luan
Jonas Manjer
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Schlagwörter: Netherlands / Aurora Universities Network / Knowmad Institut / Wellcome Trust / Nutrition and Dietetics / Medicine (miscellaneous)
Sprache: Englisch
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Contains fulltext : 79873.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Closed access) Given the lack of consistent evidence of the relationship between Mediterranean dietary patterns and body fat, we assessed the cross-sectional association between adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, BMI, and waist circumference (WC). A total of 497,308 individuals (70.7% women) aged 25-70 y from 10 European countries participated in this study. Diet was assessed at baseline using detailed validated country-specific questionnaires, and anthropometrical measurements were collected using standardized procedures. The association between the degree of adherence to the modified-Mediterranean Diet Score (mMDS) (including high consumption of vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, cereals, fish and seafood, and unsaturated:saturated fatty acids ratio; moderate alcohol intake; and low consumption of meat and meat products and dairy products) and BMI (kg.m(-2)) or WC (cm) was modeled through mixed-effects linear regression, controlling for potential confounders. Overall, the mMDS was not significantly associated with BMI. Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet was significantly associated with lower WC, for a given BMI, in both men (-0.09; 95% CI -0.14 to -0.04) and women (-0.06; 95% CI -0.10 to -0.01). The association was stronger in men (-0.20; 95% CI -0.23 to -0.17) and women (-0.17; 95% CI -0.21 to -0.13) from Northern European countries. Despite the observed heterogeneity among regions, results of this study suggest that adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, high in foods of vegetable origin and unsaturated fatty acids, is associated with lower abdominal adiposity measured by WC in European men and women.