ATHENS, Greece—Conforming to a traditional Mediterranean diet may be associated with lower breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women according to a study published in the American Journal for Clinical Nutrition (2010). Additionally, the results from the study may explain, in part, the lower incidence of this disease in Mediterranean countries.
Researchers followed 14,807 women for an average of 9.8 years and identified 240 incident breast cancer cases. Increasing conformity to Mediterranean diet was not associated with lower breast cancer risk in the entire cohort or in premenopausal women, but there was a marginally statistically significant inverse association among postmenopausal women.
