{"id":6777,"date":"2011-03-07T16:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:33:06","slug":"meta-analysis-finds-mediterranean-diet-helps-fight-metabolic-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/03\/07\/meta-analysis-finds-mediterranean-diet-helps-fight-metabolic-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-Analysis Finds Mediterranean Diet Helps Fight Metabolic Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean diet may be a potent weapon in the battle to halt the growth of metabolic syndrome (MS), a new meta-analysis suggests.\u00a0Christina-Maria Kastorini and colleagues performed a meta-analysis on 50 studies including nearly 535,000 participants. In <a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/57\/11\/1299\">their paper in the <em>Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em><\/a>, they report that adherence to the Mediterranean diet was closely tied to a reduced risk of MS and its individual components, and included beneficial effects on waist circumference, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, and glucose.<\/p>\n<p>The authors concluded that their &#8220;results are of considerable public health importance,\u00a0because this dietary pattern can be easily adopted by all\u00a0population groups and various cultures and cost-effectively\u00a0serve for the primary and secondary prevention of\u00a0the MS and its individual components.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean diet may be a potent weapon in the battle to halt the growth of metabolic syndrome (MS), a new meta-analysis suggests.\u00a0Christina-Maria Kastorini and colleagues performed a meta-analysis on 50 studies including nearly 535,000 participants. In their paper in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, they report that adherence to the Mediterranean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[297,730,284,469],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-diet","tag-metabolic-syndrome","tag-obesity","tag-type-2-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}