Stroke Rounds: New Prevention Guidelines Favor Mediterranean Diet

Following a Mediterranean diet, monitoring high blood pressure at home, and increasing efforts to ban smoking in public places top the list of new recommendations for reducing stroke risk from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

The new guidelines add the Mediterranean-style diet to the DASH-style diet as a strategy for lowering stroke risk, and recommend supplementing these diets with                                                                  nuts (Class IIb, Level of Evidence B).

There are different interpretations of the Mediterranean diet, but all versions emphasize eating vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, fish, and poultry, with very little red meat and full-fat dairy.

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