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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet attenuates inflammation and coagulation process in healthy adults

The Attica study

Christina Chrysohoou, MD, PhD^*, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, MSc, PhD^,*, Christos Pitsavos, MD, PhD, FACC^*, Undurti N. Das, MD, FAMA and Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD, PhD, FACC^*

^* First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
EFA Science LLC, Norwood, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (63K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Levels of inflammatory markers by tertile of diet score and number of cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and obesity). White bars = no risk factor; bars with vertical lines = one risk factor; checkered bars = two risk factors; bars with diagonal lines = three risk factors; solid bars = four risk factors. TNF = tumor necrosis factor.