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New eviĀdence shows that daily conĀsumpĀtion of extra virĀgin olive oil offers someĀthing of a shield against periphĀeral arteĀrĀial disĀease (PAD).
A newly pubĀlished research on the subĀject led by the Spanish University of JaĆ©n also hints at the posĀsiĀbilĀity that pomace oil could pave the way to PAD.
The research was conĀducted by a cross-secĀtional analyĀsis carĀried out in 4,330 parĀticĀiĀpants in a wide trial involvĀing volĀunĀteer recruitĀment cenĀters and obeĀsity supĀport groups throughĀout Spain and known as PREDIMED-Plus, conĀsidĀered the largest Spanish trial on nutriĀtion.
According to the study pubĀlished by the magĀaĀzine Atherosclerosis, the goal of the sciĀenĀtists has been to underĀstand the assoĀciĀaĀtion between the ankle-brachial index (ABI), conĀsidĀered a PDA marker, and olive oil and olive pomace oil conĀsumpĀtion.
PREDIMED-Plus, a trial of lifestyle modĀiĀfiĀcaĀtion in indiĀvidĀuĀals with overĀweight or obeĀsity harĀborĀing the metaĀbolic synĀdrome, has the ambiĀtion to docĀuĀment the health benĀeĀfits of olive oil and the Mediterranean diet.
āConsumption of any catĀeĀgory of olive oil and olive pomace oil was assessed through a valĀiĀdated food-freĀquency quesĀtionĀnaire,ā explained the authors of the research introĀducĀing their results, and āāmulĀtiĀvariĀable linĀear regresĀsion modĀels were fitĀted to assess assoĀciĀaĀtions between olive oil conĀsumpĀtion and ABI.ā
āAmong 4,330 parĀticĀiĀpants,ā wrote the researchers, āāthe highĀest quinĀtile of total olive oil conĀsumpĀtion (sum of all catĀeĀgories of olive oil and olive pomace oil) was assoĀciĀated with higher mean valĀues of ABIā. Still, logisĀtic modĀels comĀparĀing the conĀsumpĀtion of the difĀferĀent olive oil types and olive pomace oil revealed an inverse assoĀciĀaĀtion between virĀgin olive oils conĀsumpĀtion and the likeĀliĀhood of a low ABI, while conĀsumpĀtion of olive pomace oil was posĀiĀtively assoĀciĀated with a low ABI.
āIn this way,ā the University note reads, āāthe researchers conĀcluded that, in patients with high carĀdioĀvasĀcuĀlar risk, the conĀsumpĀtion of olive oil is assoĀciĀated with benĀeĀfits for the preĀvenĀtion of periphĀeral arteĀrĀial disĀease, the oppoĀsite of the conĀsumpĀtion of pomace olive oil, which could proĀmote its develĀopĀment.ā
Those findĀings conĀfirm the hypothĀeĀsis of preĀviĀous studĀies that hinted at a posĀsiĀble posĀiĀtive effect of the Mediterranean diet on PAD patients.
PAD is a proĀgresĀsive disĀease that brings to the narĀrowĀing of the arterĀies with conĀseĀquent impact on the blood flow, espeĀcially on human limbs, but it can also impact on heart and brain.
A healthy diet is conĀsidĀered essenĀtial to a sucĀcessĀful recovĀery from the conĀdiĀtion which often folĀlows athĀerĀoĀscleĀroĀsis.
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