DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1928 © 2007 by the American Diabetes Association
Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated With Adherence to an Unhealthy DietFrom the Endocrine Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Address correspondence to Fereidoun Azizi, MD, Endocrine Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 19395-4763, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: azizi@erc.ac.ir
We read with interest the article by Freire et al. (1), which implicates that total dietary fat might increase the risk for metabolic syndrome. Conversely, they discovered an inverse relationship between linoleic acid intake and the metabolic syndrome. These data add to the mounting evidence describing the association between high dietary fat intake and features of metabolic syndrome either alone or in combination (2,3).
We evaluated dietary nutrient intakes and features of metabolic syndrome in a population-based cross-sectional study of 671
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