Adherence to a Mediterranean diet is associated with a better health-related quality of life: a possible role of high dietary antioxidant content.

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Published in BMJ Open on August 13, 2013

Authors

Marialaura Bonaccio1, Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Americo Bonanni, Simona Costanzo, Francesca De Lucia, George Pounis, Francesco Zito, Maria Benedetta Donati, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello, Moli-sani project Investigators*

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Laboratori di Ricerca, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura "Giovanni Paolo II", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Campobasso, Italy.

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