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Christos Pitsavos
Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Publications - 429
Citations - 18690
Christos Pitsavos is an academic researcher from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mediterranean diet. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 402 publications receiving 16616 citations. Previous affiliations of Christos Pitsavos include Harokopio University & Athens State University.
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Dietary patterns: A Mediterranean diet score and its relation to clinical and biological markers of cardiovascular disease risk
TL;DR: The Mediterranean diet score proposed above may be useful in assessing the nutritional status of an individual and investigating the relationship of the Mediterranean diet with various health outcomes.
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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet attenuates inflammation and coagulation process in healthy adults: The ATTICA Study.
Christina Chrysohoou,Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos,Christos Pitsavos,Undurti N. Das,Christodoulos Stefanadis +4 more
TL;DR: Adherence to the traditional Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduction in the concentrations of inflammation and coagulation markers, which may partly explain the beneficial actions of this diet on the cardiovascular system.
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Vascular Factors and Risk of Dementia: Design of the Three-City Study and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population
Marilyn Antoniak,Maura Pugliatti,Richard Hubbard,John Britton,Stefano Sotgiu,A. Dessa Sadovnick,Irene M.L. Yee,Miguel A. Cumsille,Jorge A. Bevilacqua,Sarah Burdett,Lesley A. Stewart,Neil Pickering,Nino Khetsuriani,Eva S. Quiroz,Robert C. Holman,Larry J. Anderson,Rosalind Gait,Claire Maginnis,Sarah Lewis,Gustavo C. Román,Violeta Díaz,Torgeir Engstad,Ove Almkvist,Matti Viitanen,Egil Arnesen,Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos,Christina Chrysohoou,Christos Pitsavos,Alessandro Menotti,Anastasios Dontas,John Skoumas,Christodoulos Stefanadis,Pavlos Toutouzas,Amanda S. Persad,Todd Stedeford,Seigo Tanaka,Liping Chen,Marek Banasik,M. Alessandra Sotgiu,Charles M. Poser,Giulio Rosati,Ian Lawson +41 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the baseline characteristics of the participants in the Three-City (3C) Study, a study aiming to evaluate the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment attributable to vascular factors.
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Adherence to the Mediterranean food pattern predicts the prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and obesity, among healthy adults; the accuracy of the MedDietScore
TL;DR: The proposed Mediterranean Diet Score may be useful in detecting individuals prone to the development of nutrition-related health conditions and cardiovascular disease.
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The implication of obesity and central fat on markers of chronic inflammation: The ATTICA study.
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos,Christos Pitsavos,Mary Yannakoulia,Christina Chrysohoou,Christodoulos Stefanadis +4 more
TL;DR: A relationship between central adiposity and inflammation process, irrespective of age and other potential confounders, was more prominent than the relationship between total obesity and inflammation.