Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and risk of diabetes
- Autor(en)
- Lukas Schwingshackl, Benjamin Missbach, Jürgen König, Georg Hoffmann
- Abstrakt
Objective: Adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with significant improvements in health status. However, to date no systematic review and meta-analysis has summarized the effects of Mediterranean diet adherence on the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Design: Electronic searches for randomized controlled trials and cohort studies were performed in MEDLINE, SCOPUS, EMBASE and the Cochrane Trial Register until 2 April 2014. Pooled effects were calculated by an inverse-variance random-effect meta-analysis using the statistical software Review Manager 5·2 by the Cochrane Collaboration. Setting: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and cohort studies. Subjects: Eligibility criteria: 19+years of age. Results: One randomized controlled trial and eight prospective cohort studies (122 810 subjects) published between 2007 and 2014 were included for meta-analysis. For highest v. lowest adherence to the Mediterranean diet score, the pooled risk ratio was 0·81 (95 % CI 0·73, 0·90, P<0·0001, I 2=55 %). Sensitivity analysis including only long-term studies confirmed the results of the primary analysis (pooled risk ratio=0·75; 95 % CI 0·68, 0·83, P<0·00001, I 2=0 %). The Egger regression test provided no evidence of substantial publication bias (P=0·254). Conclusions: Greater adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of diabetes (19 %; moderate quality evidence). These results seem to be clinically relevant for public health, in particular for encouraging a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern for primary prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Organisation(en)
- Department für Ernährungswissenschaften, Institut für Lehrer*innenbildung
- Journal
- Public Health Nutrition
- ISSN
- 1368-9800
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980014001542
- Publikationsdatum
- 08-2014
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 303009 Ernährungswissenschaften
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f4649677-ae26-464e-bfa7-e2e046abedbf