Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 21, Issue 7 , Pages 518-525 , July 2011

Cross-sectional association of nut intake with adiposity in a Mediterranean population

  • P. Casas-Agustench

      Affiliations

    • Human Nutrition Unit, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, IISPV, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Reus, Spain
    • CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
    • ,
  • M. Bulló

      Affiliations

    • Human Nutrition Unit, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, IISPV, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Reus, Spain
    • CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
    • ,
  • E. Ros

      Affiliations

    • CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
    • Lipid Clinic, Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • J. Basora

      Affiliations

    • CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
    • Direcció d'Atenció Primària Tarragona-Reus, Institut Català de la Salut, Reus, Spain
    • ,
  • J. Salas-Salvadó

      Affiliations

    • Human Nutrition Unit, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus, IISPV, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Reus, Spain
    • CIBER Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Human Nutrition Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Rovira i Virgili University, Sant Llorenç 21, 43201 Reus, Spain. Tel.: +34 977 759312; fax: +34 977 759322.
    • ,
  • on behalf of the Nureta-PREDIMED investigators

Received 31 August 2009 ,Revised 13 November 2009 ,Accepted 20 November 2009.

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☆ Support for research: This study was funded, in part, by the Spanish Ministry of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias) projects PI051839, G03/140 and RD06/0045.

PII: S0939-4753(09)00288-9

doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2009.11.010

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 21, Issue 7 , Pages 518-525 , July 2011

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