Mediterranean diet helps cut risk of heart attack, stroke: Results of PREDIMED study presented
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 19:00
in Health & Medicine
Results of a major study aimed at assessing the efficacy of the Mediterranean diet in the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases show that such a diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or tree nuts reduces by 30 percent the risk of suffering a cardiovascular death, a myocardial infarction or a stroke.