ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2017
What Are the Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Allergies and Asthma in Children?
Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of Mediterranean diet adherence on allergic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Pooled it
- The Effect of Dietary Components of the Mediterranean Diet on Food Allergies: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Does Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Have a Protective Effect against Asthma and Allergies in Children? A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Association between childhood asthma and history of assisted reproduction techniques: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Nutrition as a Modifiable Factor in Optimizing Respiratory Health: Evidence from Pulmonary Function Tests.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Feeding the Skin Barrier: The Impact of Macro- and Micronutrients on Skin Barrier Function.Clinical and translational allergy · 2025Review
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- Boosting Immunity Through Nutrition and Gut Health: A Narrative Review on Managing Allergies and Multimorbidity.Nutrients · 2025Review
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- Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and allergic diseases in Korean adults: KNHANES 2013-2016.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet and in association with asthma and wheezing in schoolchildren: A cross-sectional study.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2024Article
- The Early Appearance of Asthma and Its Relationship with Gut Microbiota: A Narrative Review.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Physical Health-Related Quality of Life in Relation to Mediterranean Diet Adherence in a Sample of Greek Asthma Patients: A Pilot Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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- Life Course of Asthma.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Allergic rhinitis in Chinese young adults from the Singapore/Malaysia cross-sectional genetics epidemiology study (SMCGES) cohort: Prevalence, patterns, and epidemiology of allergic rhinitis.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2022Article
- Epithelial barrier hypothesis: Effect of the external exposome on the microbiome and epithelial barriers in allergic disease.Allergy · 2022Review
- The Foetal Origins of Allergy and Potential Nutritional Interventions to Prevent Disease.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Effects of the Mediterranean Diet during pregnancy on the onset of allergy in at risk children: A study protocol of a multi-center, randomized- controlled, parallel groups, prospective trial (the PREMEDI study).Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Pediatric Obesity-Related Asthma: The Role of Nutrition and Nutrients in Prevention and Treatment.Nutrients · 2021Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
This review updates the relationship between the adherence to Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) assessed by questionnaire and asthma, allergic rhinitis, or atopic eczema in childhood. It deals with the effect of MedDiet in children on asthma/wheeze, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis/eczema, and also with the effect of MedDiet consumption by the mother during pregnancy on the inception of asthma/wheeze and allergic diseases in the offspring. Adherence to MedDiet by children themselves seems to have a protective effect on asthma/wheezing symptoms after adjustment for confounders, although the effect is doubtful on lung function and bronchial hyperresponsiveness. By contrast, the vast majority of the studies showed no significant effect of MedDiet on preventing atopic eczema, rhinitis, or atopy. Finally, studies on adherence to MedDiet by the mother during pregnancy showed some protective effect on asthma/wheeze symptoms in the offspring only during the first year of life, but not afterward. Very few studies have shown a protective effect on wheezing, current sneeze, and atopy, and none on eczema. Randomized control trials on the effect of the adherence to MedDiet to prevent (by maternal consumption during pregnancy) or improve (by child consumption) the clinical control of asthma/wheezing, allergic rhinitis, or atopic dermatitis are needed.
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