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A Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts reduces diabetes risk, but the effect is not statistically significant compared to a low-fat control diet in this specific analysis.

Adding 30 grams of mixed nuts daily to a Mediterranean diet may help lower diabetes risk, but the evidence for this specific combination is less conclusive than for olive oil. It is still a healthy addition, but do not rely on it as the sole preventive strategy if you are at high risk.

WeakQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
Multivariate-adjusted hazard ratios were... 0.82 (CI, 0.61 to 1.10) for the Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts compared with the control diet.
Jordi Salas‐Salvadó et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine · 2014

Why this rating

RCT design, but the specific subgroup analysis for nuts did not reach statistical significance.

Source

Prevention of Diabetes With Mediterranean Diets

Jordi Salas‐Salvadó et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine · 2014

DOI 10.7326/m13-1725

rct · n=3541Cited 642×
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