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Mediterranean diet can reduce risk of stroke by up to 25%, long-term study suggests
(www.theguardian.com)
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FoR those asking about sample and confounders....
"The study involved 105,614 women in California with an average age of 53 at the start of the study"
"The study had limitations – it looked only at women, and participants reported their own diet data – but independent experts suggested the findings were significant."
It sounds like a study related to strokes as they relate to menopausal women. The Mediterranean diet is promoted a lot amongst doctors knowledgeable in perimenopause/menopause.
I can't imagine someone purposefully design a study this way.