Which Mediterranean diet in the management of metabolic syndrome?

摘要

We read with interest the article by Salas-Salvado et al describing the potential usefulness of a traditional Mediterranean diet enriched with nuts in the management of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). The effects of the interventional diets used in the study by Salas-Salvado et al are somewhat less than expected: according to a recent analysis, the 3 intervention studies that were specifically conceived to test the effect of dietary or lifestyle changes on the prevalence of MetS produced a weighed mean resolution rate of the syndrome of 25% (range, 20%-48%). Interestingly enough, the intervention diets adopted in the 3 studies were similar to Mediterranean dietary patterns.