`Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Risk of Kidney Disease - Olive Oil Times

Mediterranean Diet May Reduce Risk of Kidney Disease

By Isabel Putinja
Nov. 20, 2014 13:05 UTC

A new US study has found that a Mediterranean diet may sig­nif­i­cantly reduce the risk of chronic kid­ney dis­ease.

The study, The Association between a Mediterranean-Style Diet and Kidney Function in the Northern Manhattan Study Cohort” by Dr Minesh Khatri of Columbia University Medical Center and his col­leagues, was pub­lished in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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While the Mediterranean diet has long been asso­ci­ated with a decrease in car­dio­vas­cu­lar risks, the researchers of this study aimed to find out if the diet can also encour­age a pos­i­tive change in kid­ney func­tion and a lower risk of kid­ney dis­ease. A Mediterranean diet includes fruits and veg­eta­bles, fish, legumes, and healthy fats like extra vir­gin olive oil.

This study fol­lowed 900 mul­ti­eth­nic par­tic­i­pants for close to seven years, mon­i­tor­ing the degree of their adher­ence to the Mediterranean diet through a points sys­tem.

The results of the study indi­cate that dietary pat­terns that closely resem­bled the Mediterranean diet were linked with a 50 per­cent reduced risk of devel­op­ing chronic kid­ney dis­ease and a 42 per­cent reduced risk of expe­ri­enc­ing rapid kid­ney func­tion decline.”

For every point in the Mediterranean diet score, the doc­tors noted a 17 per­cent lower like­li­hood of devel­op­ing chronic kid­ney dis­ease.

According to the National Kidney Foundation, kid­ney dis­ease is the 9th lead­ing cause of death in the US, with 1 in 3 Americans at risk of devel­op­ing the dis­ease.


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