Authors

Sujatha Rajaram, PhD; Montserrat Cofán , DPharm, PhD; Aleix Sala-Vila, DPharm, PhD; Ella Haddad , RD, DrPH; Mercè Serra-Mir, RD; Edward Bitok, RD, DrPH; Irene Roth, RD, PhD; Tania M. Freitas-Simoes, RD; Amandeep Kaur, MPH; Cinta Valls-Pedret, MSc; Mónica Doménech , MD, PhD; Keiji Oda , MPH; Dolores Corella, PhD; Joan Sabaté, MD, DrPH; Emilio Ros ,MD, PhD

Abstract

We hypothesized that incorporating walnuts into the usual diet would improve the lipid profile. Our data also support a beneficial effect of the walnut diet on nuclear magnetic resonance–assessed lipoprotein subfractions, with reductions of intermediate density lipoprotein cholesterol and total LDL particles.