Adherence to the Southern European Atlantic Diet and occurrence of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction

Background: The Southern European Atlantic Diet (SEAD) is the traditional diet in northern Portugal and Galicia, a region in northwest Spain. Objective: The objective was to examine the association between adherence to the SEAD and the occurrence of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Design: This was a population-based case-control study in Porto, Portugal. Cases were patients aged ≥18 y who were hospitalized with an incident AMI (n =...