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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2000;284:2863.

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Eating well may be the best revenge against myocardial infarction (MI). During the American Heart Association's scientific sessions last month in New Orleans, researchers from Italy reported on the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet for individuals who already have had an MI. "Despite the fact that good dietary habits are known to be the cornerstone of heart health, there are limited data demonstrating the amount of benefit for individuals who have had a heart attack," said Roberto Marchioli, MD, co-coordinator of the GISSI-Prevenzione Study that evaluated long-term changes in dietary habits of 11,324 Italians after they had an MI.

The researchers examined death rates in patients according to the amounts of Mediterranean-style foods they ate—vegetables, fish, fruit, and olive oil—along with an additional dietary component, butter. Patients who consumed the most butter had nearly three times the risk of dying within 42 months after their MI as those . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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