ArticleNutrients2019
Dissimilar Impact of a Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity on Anthropometric Indices: A Cross-Sectional Study from the ILERVAS Project.
Article in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03228459 (Randomized Intervention Study to Assess the Prevalence of Subclinical Vascular Disease and Hidden Kidney Disease and Its Impact on Morbidity and Mortality), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Randomized Intervention Study to Assess the Prevalence of Subclinical Vascular Disease and Hidden Kidney Disease and Its Impact on Morbidity and Mortality: The ILERVAS Project
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Adherence to the Mediterranean diet among adults in Mediterranean countries: a systematic literature review.European journal of nutrition · 2022Pooled it
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- Effects of Traditional Mediterranean Physical Activity on Physical and Mental Health: A Systematic Review.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Review
- Protective effect of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) consumption on the physical component of health-related quality of life in aging adults.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, emotional well-being and lifestyle patterns in Spain: A cross-sectional study.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Association between healthy beverage index and kidney and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study in Iran.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
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- The association between the dietary behavior, diet quality, and lifestyle scores with anthropometric indices and happiness levels among university students.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet with cardiometabolic risk factors: a cross-sectional study on PERSIAN cohort study in Fasa.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Mediterranean Diet and Healthy Eating in Subjects with Prediabetes from the Mollerussa Prospective Observational Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2021Observational
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Abstract
There is a close relationship between lifestyle behaviors and excess adiposity. Although body mass index (BMI) is the most used approach to estimate excess weight, other anthropometric indices have been developed to measure total body and abdominal adiposity. However, little is known about the impact of physical activity and adherence to a Mediterranean diet on these indices. Here we report the results of a cross-sectional study with 6672 middle-aged subjects with low to moderate cardiovascular risk from the Ilerda Vascular (ILERVAS) project. The participants' adherence to physical activity (International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form) and MedDiet (Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener) was evaluated. Measures of total adiposity (BMI, Clínica Universidad de Navarra-Body Adiposity Estimator (CUN-BAE), and Deurenberg's formula), central adiposity (waist and neck circumferences, conicity index, waist to height ratio, Bonora's equation, A body adiposity index, and body roundness index), and lean body mass (Hume formula) were assessed. Irrespective of sex, lower indices of physical activity were associated with higher values of total body fat and central adiposity. This result was constant regardless of the indices used to estimate adiposity. However, the association between MedDiet and obesity indices was much less marked and more dependent on sex than that observed for physical activity. Lean body mass was influenced by neither physical activity nor MedDiet adherence. No joint effect between physical activity and MedDiet to lower estimated total or central adiposity indices was shown. In conclusion, physical activity is related to lower obesity indices in a large cohort of middle-aged subjects. MedDiet showed a slight impact on estimated anthropometric indices, with no joint effect when considering both lifestyle variables. ClinTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03228459.
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