Deans' stroke musings: Nordic diet, Mediterranean diet, and the risk of chronic diseases: The EPIC-Potsdam study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Nordic diet, Mediterranean diet, and the risk of chronic diseases: The EPIC-Potsdam study

You'll have to ask for specifics on the Nordic diet from your doctor, most likely you'll get nothing useful. You are on your own once again trying to decipher exactly what these diets entail.
There are a couple of tables of food groups at the link. You'll have to guess at the amounts.
Good luck, hope you guess correctly.
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1082-y

Cecilia Galbete,
Janine Kröger,
Franziska Jannasch,
Khalid Iqbal,
Lukas Schwingshackl,
Carolina Schwedhelm,
Cornelia Weikert,
Heiner Boeing and
Matthias B. SchulzeEmail author

BMC Medicine201816:99

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1082-y

Received: 11 August 2017

Accepted: 22 May 2018

Published: 27 June 2018

Open Peer Review reports

Abstract

Background

The Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) has been acknowledged as a healthy diet. However, its relation with risk of major chronic diseases in non-Mediterranean countries is inconclusive. The Nordic diet is proposed as an alternative across Northern Europe, although its associations with the risk of chronic diseases remain controversial. We aimed to investigate the association between the Nordic diet and the MedDiet with the risk of chronic disease (type 2 diabetes (T2D), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cancer) in the EPIC-Potsdam cohort.

Methods

The EPIC-Potsdam cohort recruited 27,548 participants between 1994 and 1998. After exclusion of prevalent cases, we evaluated baseline adherence to a score reflecting the Nordic diet and two MedDiet scores (tMDS, reflecting the traditional MedDiet score, and the MedPyr score, reflecting the MedDiet Pyramid). Cox regression models were applied to examine the association between the diet scores and the incidence of major chronic diseases.

Results

During a follow-up of 10.6 years, 1376 cases of T2D, 312 of MI, 321 of stroke, and 1618 of cancer were identified. The Nordic diet showed a statistically non-significant inverse association with incidence of MI in the overall population and of stroke in men. Adherence to the MedDiet was associated with lower incidence of T2D (HR per 1 SD 0.93, 95% CI 0.88–0.98 for the tMDS score and 0.92, 0.87–0.97 for the MedPyr score). In women, the MedPyr score was also inversely associated with MI. No association was observed for any of the scores with cancer.

Conclusions

In the EPIC-Potsdam cohort, the Nordic diet showed a possible beneficial effect on MI in the overall population and for stroke in men, while both scores reflecting the MedDiet conferred lower risk of T2D in the overall population and of MI in women.

There are a couple of tables of food groups at the link. You'll have to guess at the amounts.