Effects of a Mediterranean-Style Diet on Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, MD, PhD;
- Emilio Ros, MD, PhD; and
- Ramón Estruch, MD, PhD
- From University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
IN RESPONSE:
We thank Dr. Samaha for his comments and appreciate the point raised about the fairness of comparisons between the Mediterranean diets and a less intensively promoted low-fat diet. We think that it is fair to compare interventions with different grades of intensity as far as their context can be appropriately conceptualized. Our intervention was not designed as a tightly controlled, feeding trial. Instead, the PREDIMED study is a demonstration project conducted among free-living individuals that is similar to health-promoting lifestyle recommendations in the primary care setting (1). We conceptualized our intervention as the combination of …
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