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Mediterranean Diet Quality Index and Albuminuria Levels and Relationship Between Other Physiological Variables

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Although it was first publicized in 1945 by the American doctor Ancel Keys stationed in Salerno, Italy, the Mediterranean diet failed to gain widespread recognition until the early 1990s. The most commonly understood version of the Mediterranean diet was presented, among others, by Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard University’s School of Public Health from the mid-1990s including a book for the general public [1]. Based on “food patterns typical of Crete, much of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy in the early 1960s,” Mediterranean diet is considered nowadays a modern nutritional recommendation [2, 3].

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Abbreviations

ACR:

Albumin to creatinine ratio

GFR:

Glomerular filtration ratio

KIDMED:

Mediterranean Diet Quality Index

MDP:

Mediterranean diet pattern

MS:

Metabolic syndrome

TAC:

Total antioxidant capacity

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Tsioufis, C., Kyvelou, S.M., Stefanadis, C. (2013). Mediterranean Diet Quality Index and Albuminuria Levels and Relationship Between Other Physiological Variables. In: Preedy, V., Hunter, LA., Patel, V. (eds) Diet Quality. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7315-2_24

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