Data on the association between a simplified Mediterranean diet score and the incidence of combined, cardio and cerebro vascular events

Fabrizio Veglia; Damiano Baldassarre; Ulf de Faire; Sudhir Kurl; Andries J Smit; Rainer Rauramaa; Philippe Giral; Mauro Amato; Alessandro Di Minno; Alessio Ravani; Beatrice Frigerio; Samuela Castelnuovo; Daniela Sansaro; Daniela Coggi; Alice Bonomi; Calogero C Tedesco; Elmo Mannarino; Steve E Humphries; Anders Hamsten; Elena Tremoli; IMPROVE study group

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103789

Data on the association between a simplified Mediterranean diet score and the incidence of combined, cardio and cerebro vascular events

Data Brief. 2019 Feb 28:23:103789. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103789. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Fabrizio Veglia¹, Damiano Baldassarre^{1

2}, Ulf de Faire^{3

4}, Sudhir Kurl⁵, Andries J Smit⁶, Rainer Rauramaa⁷, Philippe Giral⁸, Mauro Amato¹, Alessandro Di Minno¹, Alessio Ravani¹, Beatrice Frigerio¹, Samuela Castelnuovo⁹, Daniela Sansaro¹, Daniela Coggi¹⁰, Alice Bonomi¹, Calogero C Tedesco¹, Elmo Mannarino¹¹, Steve E Humphries¹², Anders Hamsten¹³, Elena Tremoli^{1

10}; IMPROVE study group

Affiliations

¹ Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
² Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
⁷ Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland.
⁸ Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris, Service Endocrinologie-Metabolisme, Groupe Hôpitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Unités de Prévention Cardiovasculaire, Paris, France.
⁹ Centro Dislipidemie E. Grossi Paoletti, Ospedale Ca' Granda di Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
¹¹ Internal Medicine, Angiology and Arteriosclerosis Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
¹² Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Institute Cardiovascular Science, University College of London, Rayne Building, London, United Kingdom.
¹³ Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract

Data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "A priori-defined Mediterranean-like dietary pattern predicts cardiovascular events better in north Europe than in Mediterranean countries" [Veglia et al., 2018]. Data contain information about the incidence of cardiovascular events in a high-risk European population (IMPROVE study) [Baldassarre et al., 2010, 2012, 2013]. Combined vascular events, as well as cardio- and cerebro-vascular events were stratified according to a priori-defined simple Mediterranean Diet (MD) score, based on just seven nutritional items (minimal adherence was 0 and maximal adherence was 7).