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Article

Exploring the Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Adults: Findings from the EvasCu Study

by
Iris Otero-Luis
1,
Alicia Saz-Lara
1,*,
Nerea Moreno-Herráiz
1,
Carla Geovanna Lever-Megina
1,
Bruno Bizzozero-Peroni
2,3,
Isabel Antonia Martínez-Ortega
3,
Rebeca Varga-Cirila
1 and
Iván Cavero-Redondo
1,4
1
CarVasCare Research Group (2023-GRIN-34459), Facultad de Enfermería de Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 16002 Cuenca, Spain
2
Instituto Superior de Educación Física, Universidad de la República, Rivera 40000, Uruguay
3
Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha, 16002 Cuenca, Spain
4
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca 3460000, Chile
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Nutrients 2024, 16(13), 2158; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132158
Submission received: 10 June 2024 / Revised: 1 July 2024 / Accepted: 3 July 2024 / Published: 6 July 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutritional Strategies for Arterial Health)
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Abstract

(1) Background: Previous evidence has indicated a connection between a Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease. However, evidence for subclinical markers of cardiovascular disease, such as arterial stiffness, is limited. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the associations between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD), as assessed by the MEDAS-14 questionnaire, and arterial stiffness, as assessed by aortic pulse wave velocity, in healthy adults and according to sex. (2) A cross-sectional study including 386 healthy participants was performed in the EVasCu study. Adjusted and unadjusted differences in adherence to the MD and arterial stiffness were determined using Student’s t test and ANCOVA for the total sample and according to sex. (3) Results: Our results showed that individuals with a high adherence to the MD had a greater arterial stiffness, both in the total sample and in females, although this difference was not significant after adjusting for possible confounding variables, such as age. (4) Conclusions: Our findings indicated that, in the unadjusted analyses, healthy subjects with a high adherence to the MD showed a greater arterial stiffness. When these analyses were adjusted, no significant differences were shown in a-PWv according to the categories of MD adherence.
Keywords: Mediterranean diet; MEDAS-14 questionnaire; arterial stiffness; pulse wave velocity; healthy adults Mediterranean diet; MEDAS-14 questionnaire; arterial stiffness; pulse wave velocity; healthy adults

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Otero-Luis, I.; Saz-Lara, A.; Moreno-Herráiz, N.; Lever-Megina, C.G.; Bizzozero-Peroni, B.; Martínez-Ortega, I.A.; Varga-Cirila, R.; Cavero-Redondo, I. Exploring the Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Adults: Findings from the EvasCu Study. Nutrients 2024, 16, 2158. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132158

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Otero-Luis I, Saz-Lara A, Moreno-Herráiz N, Lever-Megina CG, Bizzozero-Peroni B, Martínez-Ortega IA, Varga-Cirila R, Cavero-Redondo I. Exploring the Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Adults: Findings from the EvasCu Study. Nutrients. 2024; 16(13):2158. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132158

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Otero-Luis, Iris, Alicia Saz-Lara, Nerea Moreno-Herráiz, Carla Geovanna Lever-Megina, Bruno Bizzozero-Peroni, Isabel Antonia Martínez-Ortega, Rebeca Varga-Cirila, and Iván Cavero-Redondo. 2024. "Exploring the Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Adults: Findings from the EvasCu Study" Nutrients 16, no. 13: 2158. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132158

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Otero-Luis, I., Saz-Lara, A., Moreno-Herráiz, N., Lever-Megina, C. G., Bizzozero-Peroni, B., Martínez-Ortega, I. A., Varga-Cirila, R., & Cavero-Redondo, I. (2024). Exploring the Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Adults: Findings from the EvasCu Study. Nutrients, 16(13), 2158. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132158

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