According to American research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s conference in New Orleans, patients experiencing heart attack may profit from eating a Mediterranean-style diet, with such foods as fish, olive oil and other sources of healthy fats.
The research involved 101 participants who’d experienced a heart attack around six weeks before the b ginning of the study. The participants were divided into two groups. One of them followed the low-fat American Heart Association Step II diet, whereas the other group was put on a Mediterranean diet, Agence France Presse informed.
Both groups of participants were instructed to restrict the consumption of cholesterol to no more than 200 milligrams daily and to reduce saturated fat consumption to no more than 7 per cent of total calories.
As AFP reported, after an average of around four years, both groups of patients demonstrated similar combined rates of death, repeat heart attack, stroke, unstable chest pain, or hospitalization for heart failure.
In comparison with heart attack patients who received no dietary counseling, those in the two intervention groups were at nearly 66 per cent less risk of developing cardiovascular complications.
