J. Delaye

TL;DR: The protective effect of the Mediterranean dietary pattern was maintained up to 4 years after the first infarction, confirming previous intermediate analyses and indicating that a comprehensive strategy to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality should include primarily a cardioprotective diet.

TL;DR: An alpha-linolenic acid-rich Mediterranean diet seems to be more efficient than presently used diets in the secondary prevention of coronary events and death.

TL;DR: A Cretan Mediterranean diet adapted to a Western population protected against coronary heart disease much more efficiently than did the prudent diet, and it appears that the favorable life expectancy of the Cretans could be largely due to their diet.

TL;DR: The hypothesis is that different pathogenetic mechanisms were responsible for the development of the various complications in the Lyon Diet Heart Study and it is likely that certain nutriments characteristic of the Mediterranean diet have specific cardioprotective effects.

TL;DR: The IE prognosis is not uniform: Mortality is high during the initial phase, but after one year the risk of dying is low, although still above that of the general population, and part of the risk is probably the direct consequence of IE, but part is due to the course of the underlying heart disease.