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A 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool and Obesity Indexes among High-Risk Subjects: The PREDIMED Trial

Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, Ana García‐Arellano, Estefanía Toledo, Jordi Salas‐Salvadó, Pilar Buil‐Cosiales, Dolores Corella, María Isabel Covas, Helmut Schröder, Fernando Arós, Enrique Gómez‐Gracia,

PLoS ONE · 2012 · 1.1K citations · 37 references

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Abstract

A brief 14-item tool was able to capture a strong monotonic inverse association between adherence to a good quality dietary pattern (Mediterranean diet) and obesity indexes in a population of adults at high cardiovascular risk.

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