A study to improve health. Researchers are looking for volunteers and doing this to reduce cardiovascular problems. Cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack or stroke are among the most common causes of death in Spain and the rest of the world. The Cadimed study, coordinated by researchers at the University of Granada (UGR), aims to prevent cardiovascular risks by fundamentally adhering to the guidelines of the Mediterranean diet.
The researchers need adults between the ages of 18 and 75 who were found in a recent analysis to have elevated LDL (bad) cholesterol levels (above 116 mg/dL and unless their doctor has prescribed or started treatment with certain medications).
For more information, interested parties can visit www.cadimed.es, where they can find the form to fill out. You can also contact the researchers directly (phone: 624 78 30 70; email: studiocadimed@gmail.com). What is important, they explain, is that researchers can confirm that volunteers meet the necessary participation criteria before participating.
The study is coordinated by scientists from the university in collaboration with endocrinologists from the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital and primary care centers.
The Cadimed study is a project coordinated by scientists from the University of Granada (affiliated with the Biosanitary Research Institute and the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology) in collaboration with endocrinology specialists from the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital and primary care centers in Granada. The study is financed by public funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Universities.
The main researcher Carmen Piernas from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II of the UGR emphasizes: “Our diet is increasingly different from the Mediterranean diet, which leads to a higher incidence of serious diseases such as heart attack,” of myocardium, diabetes or cancer. However, previous studies show that small, concrete changes in our diet that bring us closer to the Mediterranean diet can lead to big health benefits, especially when it comes to cardiovascular disease.
And he specifies that the Cadimed study, with a dietary intervention of “just eight weeks and novel molecular analysis, can help us give the answer.” I encourage you to join in!
During scientific volunteering, participants receive specific nutritional guidelines to improve their diet to reduce cardiovascular risk. Volunteers will be able to better understand their health status, and improved diets could help them better control total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) levels, which may reduce long-term cardiovascular risk, the scientists argue.
In addition, the study will perform novel molecular analyzes that will provide more information about the observed changes in the volunteers’ health status. All of this is free and completely voluntary. The focus of the Cadimed study is on improving nutrition. Therefore, participants will not receive any medication or make any changes to the treatment they normally take.
