Researchers found that fish oil offered some benefit in reducing the risk of heart attack and overall heart disease, and found that folic acid was associated with a lower risk of stroke.
Supplements aside, the new research also found very little high-quality evidence that diets widely touted as heart healthy — including the Mediterranean diet — had any impact on heart health. In fact, the only dietary intervention that seemed to be beneficial was reducing salt intake, but only in people with normal blood pressure.
"There's a little bit of data on blood pressure reduction. But the studies don't measure the effect on stroke and myocardial infarction ," Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said. . It made international headlines at the time, claiming the Mediterranean diet — rich in olive oil, nuts, fruit and vegetables — cut the risk for heart disease by a third. The benefit was found to be so huge that the study was stopped early so everyone could be made aware of the dramatic findings.
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