Mediterranean and low fat diets reduce risk of deaths from cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes, according to new research.
They concluded that Medditerranean and low fat dietary programmes "probably reduce the risk of mortality and non-fatal myocardial infarction in people at increased cardiovascular risk". Several previous analyses of randomised controlled trials have suggested that some diets can reduce major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks - but any beneficial impact on death is still uncertain.
Low fat programmes were also superior to minimal intervention with moderate certainty for prevention of all cause mortality - nine fewer deaths per 1000 and non-fatal heart attack - seven fewer per 1000.
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