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Supervivencia ACV Intervencion Dieta Mediterranea Vs Baja en Grasas
Supervivencia ACV Intervencion Dieta Mediterranea Vs Baja en Grasas
Supervivencia ACV Intervencion Dieta Mediterranea Vs Baja en Grasas
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DOLORES CORELLA, DPHARM, PHD1,2 LLUIS SERRA-MAJEM, MD, PHD2,10 lthough transcription factor 7-like 2
PAULA CARRASCO, BSC, PHD1,2 VALENTINA RUIZ-GUTIÉRREZ, PHD2,11
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From the 1Department of Preventive Medicine and 4
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public 7
Department of Computer Languages and Systems,
Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Health, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, School of Technology and Experimental Sciences,
Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 2CIBER Fisiopatologıa de Madrid, Spain; the 5Human Nutrition Unit, Faculty Jaume I University, Castellón, Spain; the 8Depart-
la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, of Medicine, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere ment of Cardiology, Hospital Txagorritxu, Vitoria,
Madrid, Spain; the 3Department of Internal Medi- Virgili, University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain; the Spain; the 9Department of Family Medicine, Primary
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cine, Hospital Clinic, Institut d’Investigacions Bio- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Municipal In- Care Division of Sevilla, San Pablo Health Center,
mèdiques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain; the stitut for Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain; the Sevilla, Spain; the 10Department of Clinical Sciences,
the north–south gradient for the 7903146T through long-term postrandomization either EVOO (50 mL/day) or mixed
allele found in Europe, the frequency of intervention (median ;5 years) with nuts (30 g/day) at no cost (22,34). Partic-
this allele being higher in Mediterranean MedDiet in a large nutrition intervention ipants assigned to the control diet re-
populations (;0.4) than in Northern trial (22). ceived recommendations to reduce the
Europeans (;0.2). Although there is evi- intake of all types of fat. A detailed de-
dence that the Mediterranean food pat- RESEARCH DESIGN AND scription of the nutritional interventions
tern may reduce type 2 diabetes risk METHODS has been provided elsewhere (22). Sub-
(21) and cardiovascular disease incidence jects were followed up for a median of 4.8
(22), no studies have investigated the in- Subjects years (interquartile range 2.8–5.8 years).
fluence of Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) We included the 7,018 participants The Institutional Review Board of each
on TCF7L2 gene effects. Some investiga- (2,993 men and 4,025 women) entering participating center approved the study
tions (23–25) have analyzed the interac- the PREvención con DIetaMEDiterranea protocol, and all participants provided
tion between dietary factors and TCF7L2 (PREDIMED) trial from whom DNA was written informed consent.
gene variation on incidence of type 2 isolated, the TCF7L2-rs7903146 poly-
diabetes, but the results are inconclu- morphism determined, and who had
sive. In addition to type 2 diabetes risk valid data for the main clinical and life- Demographic, clinical,
and fasting glucose concentrations, the style variables analyzed. The PREDIMED anthropometric, and dietary
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University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Nutrition, Food Science, Physiology and Toxi- Corresponding author: Dolores Corella, dolores.
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; the 11Instituto de cology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; corella@uv.es.
la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones the 17Lipid Clinic, Endocrinology and Nutrition Received 22 April 2013 and accepted 17 June 2013.
Cientıficas, Sevilla, Spain; the 12Department of Service, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Au- DOI: 10.2337/dc13-0955. Clinical trial reg. no.
Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of gust Pi Sunyer, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; ISRCTN35739639, www.isrctn.org.
Malaga, Malaga, Spain; the 13University Institute the 18Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiol- This article contains Supplementary Data online at
for Health Sciences Investigation, Hospital Son ogy and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional http://care.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/
Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Isla Baleares, Spain; de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid, doi:10.2337/dc13-0955/-/DC1.
the 14Lipids and Vascular Risk Unit, Internal Spain; the 19Institutos Madrileños of Estudios © 2013 by the American Diabetes Association.
Medicine, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Avanzados Alimentación, Madrid, Spain; and the Readers may use this article as long as the work is
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Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer properly cited, the use is educational and not for
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Primary Care Division, Catalan Institute of USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging profit, and the work is not altered. See http://crea-
Health, Barcelona, Spain; the 16Department of at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts. tivecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.
measured with calibrated scales and a adjustments for continuous variables and genetic characteristics of the 7,018
wall-mounted stadiometer, respectively. were carried out by covariance analysis. participants in the PREDIMED study at
BMI was calculated as weight in kilograms Models were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, baseline according to the randomized
divided by the square of height in meters. type 2 diabetes, total energy intake, alco- allocation to the three dietary intervention
hol consumption, smoking, physical ac- groups: MedDiet supplemented with
Outcome ascertainment tivity, and medications (antidiabetic, EVOO, MedDiet supplemented with
The primary end point was the occurrence lipid-lowering, and antihypertensive nuts, and control group. In the whole
of the major cardiovascular events and drugs). Dichotomous variables for dietary population, prevalence of type 2 diabetes,
comprised stroke, myocardial infarction, intake and physical activity were created dyslipidemia, obesity, and hypertension
or cardiovascular death (22). We used four using as cutoff the sample means. Logistic was high. We did not find significant dif-
sources of information to identify end regression methods were also used for ferences in medication use among the in-
points: 1) repeated contacts with partici- prevalence of type 2 diabetes. To test tervention groups at baseline: 48.0% of
pants, 2) family physicians, 3) yearly review the interaction between the TCF7L2- subjects were on lipid-lowering drugs,
of medical records, and 4) consultation of rs7903146 polymorphism, adherence to 72.5% on antihypertensive drugs, 32.1%
the National Death Index. All medical re- MedDiet, or the other dietary variables on oral hypoglycemic agents, and 6.9%
cords related to end points were examined on cardiovascular risk factors at baseline, on insulin. In the whole population,
by the end point adjudication committee, separate multivariate regression models mean prerandomization adherence to
Table 1dDemographic, clinical, lifestyle, and genetic characteristics of the study participants at baseline according to the
intervention groups
significant interactions were detected confounding variables. However, when MedDiet, and type 2 diabetes was not sta-
when two categories of other dietary adherence to MedDiet was high ($9 tistically significant (P = 0.348).
variables (carbohydrates, fiber, GI, GL, to- points), no higher fasting glucose We also analyzed the gene–diet inter-
tal fat, saturated fat, and proteins) were concentrations were observed in TT indi- action of other dietary variables (GL, GI,
analyzed (results not shown). This may viduals (P = 0.282). As the effects of this total fat, saturated fat, fiber, carbohydrates,
be due in part to the fact that we are deal- interaction were mainly observed for TT and proteins) on fasting glucose at baseline
ing with prevalent cases of type 2 diabe- individuals, we analyzed them in compar- and for neither of them did we find statis-
tes. Therefore, we analyzed how current ison with CC+CT in a recessive model, tically significant interactions (not shown).
fasting glucose concentrations are modu- and a more statistically significant inter-
lated by the MedDiet and the TCF7L2 action term was obtained (P = 0.004). Interaction between
polymorphism to better understand the This interaction effect (as recessive) was prerandomization adherence to the
relationship between present dietary also statistically significant on consider- MedDiet and the TCF7L2-rs7903146
intake and a TCF7L2 polymorphism- ing the score of adherence to MedDiet polymorphism on plasma lipid
related trait. as a continuous variable from 0 to 14 concentrations
We detected a statistically significant (P interaction: 0.033) (Supplementary Using the same recessive interaction
interaction (P = 0.014) between the Fig. 1B). In a sensitivity analysis, we also model, we found statistically significant
TCF7L2 polymorphism (three categories) studied the homogeneity of this interaction gene–diet interactions (Supplementary
and prerandomization adherence to the in different strata (Table 2). By sex, the in- Table 3) in determining total cholesterol,
MedDiet as dichotomous in determining teraction effect was statistically significant LDL-C, and triglycerides (P interaction:
fasting glucose concentrations (Supple- in both men and women. When we strat- 0.005, 0.003, and 0.046, respectively).
mentary Fig. 1A). When adherence to ified the analysis according to diabetes When adherence to MedDiet was low, TT
MedDiet was low (below the sample status, the interaction effect was higher individuals presented higher concentra-
mean, 9 points), we observed the predict- and clearly significant for type 2 diabetes tions of total cholesterol, LDL-C, and triglyc-
able effects of the TCF7L2-rs7903146 subjects (P interaction: 0.023). In nondi- erides than CC+CT subjects. However,
polymorphism on fasting glucose con- abetic subjects, although a similar trend when adherence was high, these effects
centrations (higher concentrations in TT was observed, the interaction term was were not observed in TT individuals, and
individuals), reaching statistically signifi- borderline significant (P = 0.057). How- plasma concentrations of these parameters
cant results (P = 0.001) even after adjust- ever, the test of heterogeneity for the in- did not differ between genotypes. No signif-
ment for type 2 diabetes, BMI, and other teraction among the polymorphism, icant interaction was detected for HDL-C.
Table 2dInteraction between the TCF7L2 polymorphism (recessive model) and were obtained when considering the in-
prerandomization adherence to the MedDiet in determining fasting plasma glucose tervention with MedDiet (Table 3).
concentrations Changes in dietary intake by intervention
groups in the PREDIMED study have
TCF7L2-rs7903146 genotypes P value† P value‡ been widely detailed in our previous
Strata/adherence (TCF7L 2 (interaction work (22). After a mean of 4.8 years of
to MedDiet CC+CT (n = 5,325) TT (n = 876) genotype) genotype 3 diet) follow-up, we observed a significantly
higher incidence of stroke in TT subjects
Whole population 0.004 in the control group (HR 3.06 [95% CI
Low (,9) (n = 2,833) 127.3 6 3.2 132.3 6 3.5 0.001 1.43–6.59] in the adjusted model includ-
High ($9) (n = 3,368) 127.9 6 3.1 127.2 6 3.5 0.605 ing diabetes) compared with CC homozy-
Men 0.01 gotes, but no significantly higher risks
Low (,9) (n = 1,170) 135.6 6 5.7 141.2 6 5.6 0.031 were observed in the MedDiet interven-
High ($9) (n = 1,491) 135.8 6 5.6 135.5 6 6.0 0.814 tion groups either when grouped together
Women 0.048 (HR 1.02 [95% CI 0.52–1.99] for TT
Low (,9) (n = 1,663) 126.1 6 3.9 130.5 6 4.4 0.029 compared with CC) or considered sepa-
High ($9) (n = 1,877) 127.3 6 3.9 126.0 6 4.3 0.596 rately (HR 1.13 [95% CI 0.49–2.64] in
Table 3dIncidence rates and HRs for total cardiovascular events and stroke stratified by the TCF7L2-rs7903146 polymorphism and
the dietary intervention group after a median of 4.8 years of follow-up (multivariate adjusted models)
polymorphisms and cardiovascular risk, coronary atherosclerosis in nondiabetic polymorphism. These results are espe-
the results are controversial (6–9,40). In patients. These contradictory results cially important given that the alloca-
the first report of the Atherosclerosis Risk may be due to either the different demo- tion to the MedDiet intervention was
in Communities (ARIC) study (6), TCF7L2 graphic and clinical characteristics of the randomly assigned. No previous study
polymorphisms were not significantly as- patients included in each study or to the has analyzed the dietary modulation of
sociated with incident coronary heart dis- contribution of interactions with differ- the TCF7L2-rs7903146 polymorphism
ease, ischemic stroke, or cardiovascular ent environmental factors. on cardiovascular events, so more studies
disease in the whole cohort, although In our study, although we did not find are required to confirm our findings.
greater risk was found in white patients any significant association of the TCF7L2- We do not know the mechanisms by
with diabetes (HR 1.21; P = 0.04). Some rs7903146 polymorphism with cardiovas- which this modulation takes place, but
years later, a second reanalysis of the ARIC cular events on the population as a whole, the results obtained in our study do
study (8) reported a higher risk of coronary we did find a very important modulation show a significant gene–diet interaction
heart disease among lean TT individuals by the MedDiet on stroke incidence. TT between the rs7903146 polymorphism
(HR 1.42 [95% CI 1.03–1.97]). Muendlein individuals with a lower prerandomization and prerandomization adherence to the
et al. (40), using a population of Austrian adherence to MedDiet presented a statisti- MedDiet in determining fasting glucose
patients undergoing coronary angiography, cally significant higher stroke risk than CC and plasma lipids, so that higher adher-
did report a higher risk of coronary athero- individuals. More important is that, de- ence results in a lower concentration of
sclerosis associated with the 7903146T al- spite this starting point, the intervention these cardiovascular risk factors in TT in-
lele for the whole population (odds ratio with MedDiet over a median of 4.8 years dividuals compared with that which they
1.29 [95% CI 1.09–1.53]), but, in the follow-up had a greater influence on would have with a lower adherence to the
stratified analysis by diabetes status, stroke. Hence, TT individuals assigned to MedDiet. The association of the TCF7L2-
they found that this association was the control group presented a higher stroke rs7903146 polymorphism with plasma
strong in type 2 diabetes patients but incidence than CC individuals. However, lipids is controversial, and we found great
not in nondiabetic subjects. Conversely, stroke incidence was not greater in TT in- variability in results depending on the dif-
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that the 7903146T allele was associated groups, so reversing the genetic suscepti- suggesting a possible modulation of this
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