In people with elevated cardiovascular risk at baseline, adherence to the Mediterranean and Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diets was associated with a lower risk of stroke.

BACKGROUND: Adherence to healthy dietary patterns has been related to lower cardiovascular disease risk. However, few studies have examined prospective associations between adherence to different healthy dietary scores and the incidence of stroke and its subtypes. The aim of this study was to prospectively examine the associations between adherence to 4 recognized healthy dietary patterns and the risk of total and ischemic stroke in an existing dietary-based randomized controlled trial. METHODS: This is a secondary observational cohort analysis of 7,447 participants at high cardiovascular disease risk enrolled in the PREDIMED trial (Prevención Con Dieta Mediterranea).