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Mediterranean diet and low-grade subclinical inflammation: the Moli-sani study.

Overview of attention for article published in Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets, January 2015
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Title
Mediterranean diet and low-grade subclinical inflammation: the Moli-sani study.
Published in
Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets, January 2015
DOI 10.2174/1871530314666141020112146
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Marialaura Bonaccio, Chiara Cerletti, Licia Iacoviello, Giovanni de Gaetano

Abstract

Low-grade chronic inflammation is an underlying pathophysiological mechanism linking risk factors and/or metabolic disorders to increased risk of chronic degenerative disease. A meat-based pattern, as the Western type diet, is positively linked to higher levels of some important biomarkers of inflammation, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 and fibrinogen. Conversely, a Mediterranean-like eating behavior is associated with lower degree of these biomarkers thus suggesting an anti-inflammatory action of its main food components. This chapter goes through the most important investigations addressing the relationship between dietary habits and sub-clinical inflammation. Attention was focussed on the findings from the MOLI-SANI study: this is a large prospective cohort study that recruited 24,325 men and women from the general population of the Molise Region, a Southern Italian area, with the aim of investigating genetic and environmental risk/protection factors for cardiovascular and tumor disease. For the first time, the MOLI-SANI study carefully investigated the Mediterranean diet as an environmental determinant of both platelet and white blood cell counts, starting from the hypothesis that a diet rich in healthy compounds could favorably influence the production and/or the clearance of these two cellular biomarkers of low-grade inflammation. Additionally, evidence from this large Italian cohort showed that a Mediterranean-like diet was closely associated with relatively lower values of glucose, lipids, CRP, blood pressure and 10-year cardiovascular risk, while the consumption of healthy foods with high rather than low content in antioxidant vitamins and phytochemicals was associated with lower blood pressure and CRP plasma levels at least in men.

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Spain 1 1%
Unknown 72 99%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 14%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Researcher 6 8%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 19 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 23 32%
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