JAMA Network | JAMA | Association of Mediterranean Diet With Peripheral Artery Disease: The PREDIMED Randomized Trial

JAMA Network | JAMA | Association of Mediterranean Diet With Peripheral Artery Disease:  The PREDIMED Randomized Trial

Association of Mediterranean Diet With Peripheral Artery DiseaseThe PREDIMED Randomized Trial

Miguel Ruiz-Canela, PhD1; Ramón Estruch, MD, PhD2; Dolores Corella, DPharm, PhD3; Jordi Salas-Salvadó, MD, PhD4; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD1

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JAMA. 2014;311(4):415-417. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.280618.

The role of nutrition in preventing peripheral artery disease (PAD) remains elusive.1

Mediterranean diets reduce the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke.2,3 They also may reduce the risk of PAD, but this hypothesis has never been tested in a randomized trial. We assessed the association of Mediterranean diets with the occurrence of symptomatic PAD in an exploratory, nonprespecified analysis of a randomized trial.