Adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with better quality of life: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Veronese N, Stubbs B, Noale M, et al. · The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Higher Mediterranean-diet adherence was associated with modestly better physical quality of life and lower WOMAC pain and disability scores; effect sizes were small (e.g., beta = 0.10 for SF-12 physical score).

Population

Adults with or at risk of knee OA (Osteoarthritis Initiative), cross-sectional analysis

Intervention

Adherence to Mediterranean diet (aMED score, observational)

Limitations

Cross-sectional; food-frequency self-report; healthy-user confounding very likely; small effect sizes.