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Whole-Diet Approach, Mediterranean Diet, and Alzheimer Disease
Vincenzo Solfrizzi, MD, PhD;
Cristiano Capurso, MD, PhD;
Alessia D’Introno, PhD;
Anna M. Colacicco, PhD;
Maria Chirico, MD;
Antonio Capurso, MD;
Francesco Panza, MD, PhD
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Very recently, Scarmeas and colleagues reported the results of a community-based study involving 2258 nondemented individuals in New York in which adherence to a traditional Mediterranean diet (MeDi) was associated with significant reduction in risk for incident Alzheimer disease.1-2 Scarmeas and colleagues used in this report a scale indicating the degree of adherence to the traditional MeDi: a value of 0 or 1 was assigned to each of 9 indicated components with the use of the sex-specific median as the cut-off.3 However, in the study of Scarmeas and colleagues, the ratio of the median daily intake of monounsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids (one of the hallmarks of the MeDi) for individual food categories by MeDi score tertiles was <1 and overall about 2.5 . . . [Full Text of this Article]AUTHOR INFORMATION
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