By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer1 hour, 3 minutes ago
A Mediterranean-style diet high in olive oil and other "healthy" fats is just as good as the classic American Heart Association low-fat diet for the 8 million Americans who have suffered a heart attack and want to prevent a repeat, new research suggests.
People on either diet had one-third the risk of suffering another heart attack, a stroke, death or other heart problem compared with heart patients eating in the usual way, the study found. The results of the study were presented Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference.
Doctors said it was one of the best tests of specific diets on heart health, especially because participants stuck to it and achieved the goals for various fats that researchers set. The participants also were similar in treatments and other factors so the effect of the diets could be isolated.
"Both diets are prudent choices" for people at high risk of heart disease, said Dr. Katherine Tuttle of Providence Medical Research Center and Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. She led the study and presented the results at the conference.
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