Mediterranean Diet May Be Effective in NAFLD
January 1, 2012|Endocrinology
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From the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
When the two diets were directly compared with each other, the Mediterranean diet bested the low-fat diet in terms of changes in hepatic triglyceride content (P = .03), insulin levels (P = .008), and glucose infusion rate for the euglycemic clamp study (P = .03).
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The Mediterranean diet was associated with a 39% reduction in hepatic fat.
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