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Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD; Jose A. Luchsinger, MD; Richard Mayeux, MD; Nicole Schupf, PhD; Yaakov Stern, PhD

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In a recent study of a US population, Mitrou et al¹ reported longer survival for subjects conforming more to the Mediterranean Diet (MeDi). A few months earlier, we had demonstrated that higher adherence to the MeDi was associated with reduced mortality in community-based Alzheimer disease (AD) patients who were identified in another US population in New York, New York.² Considering subjects from the same New York study, we had previously demonstrated that higher conformity to the MeDi was also associated with reduced risk for AD.^3-4 In a different New York population, we have also showed that higher MeDi adherence is related to a lower odds for essential tremor.⁵

Prompted by the study by Mitrou et al,¹ we investigated the association between MeDi adherence (calculated using the same method^2-5) and all-cause mortality in our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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