Study subjects
T2DM, CHD, Diabetes
EVENT, CORONARY HEART DISEASE, DIABETES
The current work was conducted within the framework of the Coronary Diet Intervention with Olive Oil and Cardiovascular Prevention Study (CORDIOPREV; Clinical trials.gov. Identifier: NCT00924937). This is an ongoing prospective, randomized, open, controlled trial with 1002 patients. The patients received conventional treatment for CHD and had their last coronary event took place over 6 months before joining the study. The volunteers followed one of two different dietary models, a Mediterranean or a low-fat diet, for 7 years, in addition to their conventional treatment for coronary heart disease [The patients were recruited principally at the Reina Sofia University Hospital (Cordoba, Spain), with contributions from other health centres in Cordoba and Jaen, between November 2009 and February 2012. The eligibility criteria, design, and methods of the CORDIOPREV clinical trial were already reported [Our study included 462 patients from the CORDIOPREV study (N = 1002). These patients had not been diagnosed with T2DM at the beginning of the study according to specifications from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) T2DM diagnosis criteria [These patients were followed up for a median of 60 months and 107 developed T2DM (incident-DIAB), according to the ADA T2DM criteria [