Med-diet

Mediterranean-diet paper rises again Grab your olive oil: a huge study about whether a Mediterranean diet helps to prevent heart disease has been republished. The New England Journal of Medicine is also correcting five other papers, one year after a controversial review suggested that many published clinical trials contain statistical errors. Anaesthesiologist John Carlisle used a computer program to find cases in which study volunteers might not have been as randomly assigned as was claimed. In the Mediterranean-diet paper, a re-analysis confirmed the original conclusion. Science | 5 min read Reference: Anesthesia paper & New England Journal of Medicine paper