Research
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Interventions using presumed healthy diets result in reductions of almost all investigated inflammatory biomarkers.
Adopting a healthy diet, as defined by a priori scores like the Mediterranean Diet Score or Healthy Eating Index, has been shown in intervention studies to reduce inflammatory biomarkers. This suggests that dietary changes can directly lower inflammation.
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interventions with presumed healthy diets resulted in reductions of almost all investigated inflammatory biomarkers.
Why this rating
Based on intervention studies, which are higher quality than observational studies, though the review notes inconsistency.
Source
Dietary pattern analysis and biomarkers of low-grade inflammation: a systematic literature review
Janett Barbaresko et al. · Nutrition Reviews · 2013
DOI 10.1111/nure.12035
systematic_reviewCited 607×
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