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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 56, Issue 1, Pages 421-429Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00394-015-1092-x
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Diet; Nutrition; Mortality; Prevention; Eastern Europe
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- Wellcome Trust [WT064947, WT081081]
- US National Institute of Aging [1RO1AG23522]
- MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Social Upheaval and Health
- Russian Scientific Foundation [14-45-00030]
- British Heart Foundation
- Russian Science Foundation [14-45-00030] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Mediterranean-type dietary pattern has been associated with lower risk of cardiovascular (CVD) and other chronic diseases, primarily in Southern European populations. We examined whether Mediterranean diet score (MDS) is associated with total, CVD, coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke mortality in a prospective cohort study in three Eastern European populations. A total of 19,333 male and female participants of the Health Alcohol and Psychosocial factors in Eastern Europe (HAPIEE) study in the Czech Republic, Poland and the Russian Federation were included in the analysis. Diet was assessed by food frequency questionnaire, and MDS was derived from consumption of nine groups of food using absolute cut-offs. Mortality was ascertained by linkage with death registers. Over the median follow-up time of 7 years, 1314 participants died. The proportion of participants with high adherence to Mediterranean diet was low (25 %). One standard deviation (SD) increase in the MDS (equivalent to 2.2 point increase in the score) was found to be inversely associated with death from all causes (HR, 95 % CI 0.93, 0.88-0.98) and CVD (0.90, 0.81-0.99) even after multivariable adjustment. Inverse but statistically not significant link was found for CHD (0.90, 0.78-1.03) and stroke (0.87, 0.71-1.07). The MDS effects were similar in each country cohort. Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with reduced risk of total and CVD deaths in these large Eastern European urban populations. The application of MDS with absolute cut-offs appears suitable for non-Mediterranean populations.
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