Mediterranean diet and prevention of coronary heart disease in the elderly

Figures & data

Figure 1 25-year all cause mortality from the Seven Countries Studies cohorts (adopted from Toshima H et al.).

Figure 2 The adjusted effect of the adoption of Mediterranean diet on the risk of developing acute coronary syndromes, by type of region (Panagiotakos et al. 2002).

Figure 3 The adjusted, for the conventional risk factors, effect of the Mediterranean diet on the risk of developing acute coronary syndromes, in hypertensive, hypercholesterolemic, diabetes, physically inactive, obsess, and smokers’ subjects (Panagiotakos et al. 2002).

Table 1 Summary of studies assessing effect of Mediterranean diet on coronary heart disease

Study	Population	Type of study	Outcome	Effect measurement
de Lorgeril et al	303 with AMI, 302 controls	Randomized prospective case-control trial	Second event of CHD	0.27; 0.12–0.59
Panagiotakos et al	661 with ACS, 661 controls	Case-control	First event of ACS	0.84; 0.73–0.96
Pitsavos et al	534 with ACS, 399 controls with hypercholesterolemia	Case-control	First event of ACS	0.88; 0.82–0.94
Pitsavos et al	418 with ACS, 303 controls with hypertension	Case-control	First event of ACS	0.92; 0.85–0.98
Trichopoulou et al	22,034 adult men and women	Population-based prospective	Fatal CHD	0.67; 0.47–0.94
Martinez-Gonzalez et al	171 with AMI, 171 controls	Case-control	First event of AMI	0.55; 0.42–0.73
Pitsavos et al	307 with ACS, 198 controls with metabolic syndrome	Case-control	First event of ACS	0.64; 0.44–0.95

Abbreviations: ACS, acute coronary syndrome; AMI, acute myocardial infarction; CHD, coronary heart disease.

Figure 4 The traditional Mediterranean diet pyramid (created according to http://oldwayspt.org/index, accessed on February 5, 2007).

PanagiotakosDBChrysohoouCPitsavosC2002The association of Mediterranean diet with lower risk of acute coronary syndromes, in hypertensive subjectsInt J Cardiol82141711853900

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