The Mediterranean Diet, Cardiometabolic Biomarkers, and Risk of All-Cause Mortality: A 25-Year Follow-Up Study of the Women's Health Study.

In the large-scale prospective Women's Health Study of 25,315 initially healthy US women followed for 25 years, higher MED intake was associated with approximately one fifth relative risk reduction in mortality. The inverse association was only partially explained by known novel and traditional cardiometabolic factors.