ArticleBMC medicine2018
Nordic diet, Mediterranean diet, and the risk of chronic diseases: the EPIC-Potsdam study.
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- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Pooled it
- Nordic diet and chronic disease: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trials.European journal of nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Nordic dietary patterns and cardiometabolic outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies and randomised controlled trials.Diabetologia · 2022Pooled it
- Association between Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: An Updated Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Mediterranean dietary pattern and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.European journal of nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Perspective: The Application of A Priori Diet Quality Scores to Cardiovascular Disease Risk-A Critical Evaluation of Current Scoring Systems.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of stroke and stroke subtypes.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
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- FTO rs9939609 genotype and behavioral determinants of Mediterranean diet adherence in young women: exploratory insights into potential metabolic relevance.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Modulating the Gut-Nerve Axis and Inflammation: A Narrative Review of Dietary Patterns in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2026Review
- Trace element-linked DNA methylation sites and their association with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases: EPIC-Potsdam cohort study.Clinical epigenetics · 2025Article
- Trace elements and risk of diabetes-related vascular complications: results from the EPIC-Potsdam cohort study.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Article
- Metabolic profile of biodiverse diets in a healthy European cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Vegetable and Fruit Consumption and Psychological Distress: Findings from Australian National Health Survey Data, 2011-2018.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Its Association with Cognitive Function in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effect of anti-inflammatory diets on health-related quality of life in adults with chronic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) has been acknowledged as a healthy diet. However, its relation with risk of major chronic diseases in non-Mediterranean countries is inconclusive. The Nordic diet is proposed as an alternative across Northern Europe, although its associations with the risk of chronic diseases remain controversial. We aimed to investigate the association between the Nordic diet and the MedDiet with the risk of chronic disease (type 2 diabetes (T2D), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cancer) in the EPIC-Potsdam cohort.
methodsThe EPIC-Potsdam cohort recruited 27,548 participants between 1994 and 1998. After exclusion of prevalent cases, we evaluated baseline adherence to a score reflecting the Nordic diet and two MedDiet scores (tMDS, reflecting the traditional MedDiet score, and the MedPyr score, reflecting the MedDiet Pyramid). Cox regression models were applied to examine the association between the diet scores and the incidence of major chronic diseases.
resultsDuring a follow-up of 10.6 years, 1376 cases of T2D, 312 of MI, 321 of stroke, and 1618 of cancer were identified. The Nordic diet showed a statistically non-significant inverse association with incidence of MI in the overall population and of stroke in men. Adherence to the MedDiet was associated with lower incidence of T2D (HR per 1 SD 0.93, 95% CI 0.88-0.98 for the tMDS score and 0.92, 0.87-0.97 for the MedPyr score). In women, the MedPyr score was also inversely associated with MI. No association was observed for any of the scores with cancer.
conclusionsIn the EPIC-Potsdam cohort, the Nordic diet showed a possible beneficial effect on MI in the overall population and for stroke in men, while both scores reflecting the MedDiet conferred lower risk of T2D in the overall population and of MI in women.
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