The Impact of Abdominal Obesity Status on Cardiovascular Response to the Mediterranean Diet

Table 4

Dietary intakes of subjects before the 4-week controlled Mediterranean diet intervention¹.

Variables	Non-abdominally obese individuals; (𝑛=31)		Abdominally obese individuals; (𝑛=38)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Energy (kJ)^2	10910	2222	11174	3507
Carbohydrate (% of total energy)	49.5	6.0	47.6	7.8
Protein (% of total energy)	16.8	2.9	18.0	3.1
Fat (% of total energy)^2	33.7	6.2	33.7	5.9
SFA (% of total energy)	10.5	1.9	11.1	2.8
MUFA (% of total energy)^2	14.8	5.1	14.1	2.7
PUFA (% of total energy)^2	5.7	1.5	5.8	1.4
Alcohol (% of total energy)^2	2.5	2.0	2.9	2.9
MedScore (arbitrary units)	26.3	5.2	23.5*	5.0
MUFA to SFA ratio^2	1.44	0.55	1.32	0.26

SFA: saturated fatty acids; MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids; MedScore: Mediterranean score.
¹Values are presented as mean and standard deviation (SD). Data represent dietary intakes during the run-in period. Men and women with a waist circumference of, respectively, >102 cm and >88 cm were considered as having abdominal obesity.
Analyses were performed after adjustment for sex.
*Mean values were significantly different between groups before the Mediterranean diet by the General Linear Model procedure; 𝑃=0.03.
²Analysis was performed on transformed values.