Additional file 1: of Prospective association of the Mediterranean diet with cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality and its population impact in a non-Mediterranean population: the EPIC-Norfolk study

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Text S1. Scoring method of the four Mediterranean diet scores. Table S1. Mediterranean dietary pattern scores, components and corresponding food frequency questionnaire items used in EPIC-Norfolk. Table S2. Pyramid based Mediterranean diet score (PyrMDS) scoring criteria. Table S3. Characteristics of dietary consumption of components of the Mediterranean diet at baseline and follow-up among 23,902 adults in EPIC-Norfolk. Table S4. Prospective association between fifths of the degree of adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident cardiovascular diseases in EPIC-Norfolk (n = 23,902, 7606 cases/269,935 person-years). Table S5. Associations of adherence to the Mediterranean diet with incident CVD when two measures of the adherence were evaluated simultaneously for comparison: EPIC-Norfolk Study. Table S6. Cardiovascular disease incidence or mortality and all-cause mortality, the number of cases and proportion preventable by increasing adherence to the Mediterranean diet to the top third of the Mediterranean dietary score based on the dietary pyramid: the EPIC-Norfolk cohort. Table S7. Prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incident cardiovascular diseases in EPIC-Norfolk: sensitivity analysis to examine robustness of the findings across different analytical approaches. Figure S1. Prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and incidence of cardiovascular diseases in EPIC-Norfolk: sensitivity analysis to examine influence of each component of the Mediterranean diet. (DOCX 215 kb