Mediterranean diet and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Mediterranean diet has been associated with lower mortality and lower risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Although its components have been analysed in several studies, only one study has specifically investigated the association between Mediterranean diet and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and reported no association.

Methods

Data on 1721 patients with incident RA (cases) and 3667 controls, matched on age, gender and residential area, from the Swedish epidemiological investigation of RA (EIRA), a population-based case-control study, were analysed using conditional logistic regression. The Mediterranean diet score, ranging from 0 to 9, was calculated from a 124-item food frequency questionnaire.

Results

In the EIRA study (median age of parti

SUBMITTER: Johansson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085628 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature