Identification of a Novel Score for Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet That Is Inversely Associated with Visceral Adiposity and Cardiovascular Risk: The Chrono Med Diet Score (CMDS).

ABSTRACT: Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) leads to reduction of mortality from all causes, especially in subjects with cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes. Numerous scores have been proposed to evaluate the adherence to MedDiet, mainly focused on eating habits. In this study, we verified whether existing validated MedDiet scores, namely, MEDI-LITE and the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS), could be associated with visceral adiposity. Failing to find a significant association with adiposity, we proposed the validation of a new, easy-to-use adherence questionnaire, the Chrono Med-Diet score (CMDS). CMDS contains eleven food categories, including chronobiology of dietary habits and physical activity. Compared to the MEDI-LITE score and MDS, low values of CMDS are linked to increase

SUBMITTER: De Matteis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10141687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature