Studying the effects of socioeconomic variables on the adherence to Mediterranean Diet in Syrian population
published by Aِl-Baath University
in 2016
in
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
The Mediterranean Diet is a healthy diet which protects from many
diseases, but many factors could affect the adherence and vary from
country to country. The purpose of this study is to assess the
adherence to Mediterranean Diet of the sample, then studying the
economic and social factors and lifestyle which affect the
adherence to Mediterranean diet. The sample was composed of
1000 people (516) women (484) men aged from 18-65 years from
all the economic and social levels, they filled a semi-quantitative
food frequency questionnaire. we used the SPSS program.
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