Cardiovascular Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet Are Driven by Stroke Reduction and Possibly by Decreased Atrial Fibrillation Incidence.

Widmer et al assemble a wealth of information on “The Mediterranean Diet, its Components, and Cardiovascular Disease, a topic that is of ever-growing importance. They are right to call the Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMED) trial a “flagship study,” or, as I might paraphrase, a landmark study that changes clinical practice in terms of what diet we might recommend to our patients. PREDIMED was a well-designed randomized controlled trial with a significant sample size…