Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of prostate cancer Urquiza Salvat, Noelia Pascual-Geler, Manrique López Guarnido, Olga Rodrigo Conde Salazar, Lourdes T. Martínez Burgos, María Alba Cózar Olmo, José Manuel Ocaña Peinado, Francisco Álvarez Cubero, María Jesús Rivas Velasco, Ana María In Europe, countries following the traditional Mediterranean Diet (MeDi), particularly Southern European countries, have lower prostate cancer (PCa) incidence and mortality compared to other European regions. In the present study, we investigated the association between the MeDi and the relative risk of PCa and tumor aggressiveness in a Spanish population. Among individual score components, it has been found that subjects with PCa were less likely to consume olive oil as the main culinary fat, vegetables, fruits and fish than those without. However, these differences were not statistically significative. A high intake of fruit, vegetables and cooked tomato sauce Mediterranean style (sofrito) was related to less PCa aggressiveness. Results showed that there are no differences in the score of adherence to the Mediterranean dietary patterns between cases and controls, with mean values of 8.37 ± 1.80 and 8.25 ± 2.48, respectively. However, MeDi was associated with lower PCa agressiveness according to Gleason score. Hence, relations between Mediterranean dietary patterns and PCa are still inconclusive and merit further investigations. Further large-scale studies are required to clarify the effect of MeDi on prostate health, in order to establish the role of this diet in the prevention of PCa. 2024-01-22T11:19:35Z 2024-01-22T11:19:35Z 2019 journal article Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of prostate cancer (2019) Aging Male, 22 (2), pp. 102 - 108. DOI: 10.1080/13685538.2018.1450854 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/87081 10.1080/13685538.2018.1450854 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Taylor and Francis Ltd