| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | A Short Screener Is Valid for Assessing Mediterranean Diet Adherence among Older Spanish Men and Women | Journal of Nutrition | 2011 | 973 |
| 2 | Relative validity of a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire in an elderly Mediterranean population of Spain | British Journal of Nutrition | 2010 | 666 |
| 3 | Metabolomics in Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Diabetes Care | 2016 | 642 |
| 4 | Mediterranean diet improves cognition: the PREDIMED-NAVARRA randomised trial | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 2013 | 534 |
| 5 | Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED study | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2012 | 477 |
| 6 | Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of developing diabetes: prospective cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 444 |
| 7 | The Mediterranean Diet and Cardiovascular Health | Circulation Research | 2019 | 441 |
| 8 | Ultraprocessed food consumption and risk of overweight and obesity: the University of Navarra Follow-Up (SUN) cohort study | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2016 | 412 |
| 9 | Association between consumption of ultra-processed foods and all cause mortality: SUN prospective cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2019 | 312 |
| 10 | Ultraprocessed food and chronic noncommunicable diseases: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 43 observational studies | Obesity Reviews | 2021 | 298 |
| 11 | Clinical features, ventilatory management, and outcome of ARDS caused by COVID-19 are similar to other causes of ARDS | Intensive Care Medicine | 2020 | 295 |
| 12 | The role of diet in the prevention of type 2 diabetes | Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases | 2011 | 278 |
| 13 | Inverse association between habitual polyphenol intake and incidence of cardiovascular events in the PREDIMED study | Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases | 2014 | 265 |
| 14 | Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and the Incidence of Hypertension in a Mediterranean Cohort: The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra Project | American Journal of Hypertension | 2017 | 263 |
| 15 | Components of the mediterranean-type food pattern and serum inflammatory markers among patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2008 | 249 |
| 16 | In vivo nutrigenomic effects of virgin olive oil polyphenols within the frame of the Mediterranean diet: a randomized controlled trial | FASEB Journal | 2010 | 243 |
| 17 | Alcohol consumption and body weight: a systematic review | Nutrition Reviews | 2011 | 237 |
| 18 | Financial Conflicts of Interest and Reporting Bias Regarding the Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 236 |
| 19 | Effect of the Mediterranean diet on blood pressure in the PREDIMED trial: results from a randomized controlled trial | BMC Medicine | 2013 | 227 |
| 20 | Plasma Ceramides, Mediterranean Diet, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED Trial (Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea) | Circulation | 2017 | 227 |
| 21 | Sugar-sweetened beverages and risk of hypertension and CVD: a dose–response meta-analysis | British Journal of Nutrition | 2015 | 220 |
| 22 | Virgin olive oil supplementation and long-term cognition: the Predimed-Navarra randomized, trial | Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging | 2013 | 216 |
| 23 | Dietary inflammatory index and anthropometric measures of obesity in a population sample at high cardiovascular risk from the PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterránea) trial | British Journal of Nutrition | 2015 | 209 |
| 24 | Naturally Lignan-Rich Foods: A Dietary Tool for Health Promotion? | Molecules | 2019 | 204 |
| 25 | Fast-food and commercial baked goods consumption and the risk of depression | Public Health Nutrition | 2012 | 201 |
| 26 | Cohort profile: The ‘Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra’ (SUN) study | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2006 | 199 |
| 27 | Recommended dietary reference intakes, nutritional goals and dietary guidelines for fat and fatty acids: a systematic review | British Journal of Nutrition | 2012 | 199 |
| 28 | Transferability of the Mediterranean Diet to Non-Mediterranean Countries. What Is and What Is Not the Mediterranean Diet | Nutrients | 2017 | 195 |
| 29 | Validity of a self-reported diagnosis of depression among participants in a cohort study using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) | BMC Psychiatry | 2008 | 194 |
| 30 | Dietary Fat Intake and the Risk of Depression: The SUN Project | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 191 |
| 31 | Mediterranean Diet and Health Outcomes in the SUN Cohort | Nutrients | 2018 | 189 |
| 32 | Polyphenol intake from a Mediterranean diet decreases inflammatory biomarkers related to atherosclerosis: a substudy of the PREDIMED trial | British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | 2017 | 188 |
| 33 | Dietary Inflammatory Index and Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED Study | Nutrients | 2015 | 182 |
| 34 | Nut Consumption and Weight Gain in a Mediterranean Cohort: The SUN Study | Obesity | 2007 | 180 |
| 35 | A Large Randomized Individual and Group Intervention Conducted by Registered Dietitians Increased Adherence to Mediterranean-Type Diets: The PREDIMED Study | Journal of the American Dietetic Association | 2008 | 172 |
| 36 | SUCCOR study: an international European cohort observational study comparing minimally invasive surgery versus open abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with stage IB1 cervical cancer | International Journal of Gynecological Cancer | 2020 | 169 |
| 37 | Adherence to a Mediterranean dietary pattern and weight gain in a follow-up study: the SUN cohort | International Journal of Obesity | 2006 | 166 |
| 38 | The Mediterranean diet improves the systemic lipid and DNA oxidative damage in metabolic syndrome individuals. A randomized, controlled, trial | Clinical Nutrition | 2013 | 164 |
| 39 | Mediterranean food pattern and the primary prevention of chronic disease: recent developments | Nutrition Reviews | 2009 | 158 |
| 40 | Association of Mediterranean Diet With Peripheral Artery Disease | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2014 | 158 |
| 41 | Long chain omega-3 fatty acids intake, fish consumption and mental disorders in the SUN cohort study | European Journal of Nutrition | 2007 | 152 |
| 42 | Factors affecting Aβ plasma levels and their utility as biomarkers in ADNI | Acta Neuropathologica | 2011 | 151 |
| 43 | A 3 years follow-up of a Mediterranean diet rich in virgin olive oil is associated with high plasma antioxidant capacity and reduced body weight gain | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2009 | 149 |
| 44 | Renal tubule Cpt1a overexpression protects from kidney fibrosis by restoring mitochondrial homeostasis | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 2021 | 147 |
| 45 | Validation of self reported diagnosis of hypertension in a cohort of university graduates in Spain | BMC Public Health | 2005 | 146 |
| 46 | Effects of dietary fibre intake on risk factors for cardiovascular disease in subjects at high risk | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2009 | 138 |
| 47 | Effect of Mediterranean diet on the expression of pro-atherogenic genes in a population at high cardiovascular risk | Atherosclerosis | 2010 | 138 |
| 48 | Plasma Lipidomic Profiling and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the PREDIMED Trial | Diabetes Care | 2018 | 138 |
| 49 | The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk | European Heart Journal | 2020 | 138 |
| 50 | Frequency of nut consumption and mortality risk in the PREDIMED nutrition intervention trial | BMC Medicine | 2013 | 135 |
