Prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and hepatic steatosis: the Swiss CoLaus cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Mediterranean diet has been promoted as a healthy dietary pattern, but whether the Mediterranean diet may help to prevent hepatic steatosis is not clear. This study aimed to evaluate the prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of hepatic steatosis.

Design

Population-based prospective cohort study.

Setting

The Swiss CoLaus Study.

Participants

We evaluated 2288 adults (65.4% women, aged 55.8±10.0 years) without hepatic steatosis at first follow-up in 2009-2012. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was scaled as the Mediterranean diet score (MDS) based on the Mediterranean diet pyramid ascertained with responses to Food Frequency Questionnaires.

Outcome measures

New onset of hepatic steatosis was ascertained

SUBMITTER: Khalatbari-Soltani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757450 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature