A higher heart rate (HR) has been associated with increased total and cardiovascular
mortality [
1
,
2
]. Clinical trials support the beneficial effect of decreasing HR in patients with
heart failure [
[3]
] and ischaemic heart disease [
[4]
]. A recent cross-sectional study showed that closer adherence to the Mediterranean
diet (MeDiet) was related to lower HR [
[5]
]. We evaluated the association between adherence to the MeDiet (measured with a score
from 0 to 14 obtained by a validated screener [
[6]
]) and HR using both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal analysis of the PREDIMED
trial [
7
,
8
].Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: December 26, 2013
Accepted:
November 23,
2013
Received:
August 27,
2013
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