ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02669602
There are numerous questions about which diets are beneficial and prevent illness, and which ones are harmful to our health. To find out what's healthy and what's not, there are better options than having one person eat a certain diet, and another person avoid the same food.
The SUN Project (University of Navarra Follow-Up Study) came about as a result of the following idea: the best formula is for people to continue living their everyday habits, with the same diet they have always eaten. This way the consequences of their lifestyle can be analyzed by way of a questionnaire that participants fill out every two years. The group of participants as a whole is called the SUN Project cohort.
A cohort is a group of people who share a common experience during the same period of time, and the participants in the SUN Project are tracked over time so as to analyze the occurrence of illnesses or their incidence.
Participants are asked questions about their diet, daily working hours, exercise, amount of food consumed and other factors, such as elements or behaviors that could influence the risk of having a car accident.
Serious research projects with solid instructions are needed in order to be able to make diet recommendations to the public. In the United States, the mortality rate for coronary diseases has decreased by 50% since high cholesterol, hypertension and tobacco were shown to be clear risk factors.
We intend to do the same here.
Contact
Prof. Miguel Ángel Martínez González (Founder)
sun@unav.es
Research Building, 2nd floor
C/ Irunlarrea, 1
31008 Pamplona, Spain
948 42 56 00
Ext. 806511
Fax: 948 425 740
Contact
Maira Bes Rastrollo (Head researcher)
mbes@unav.es
Research Building, 2nd floor
C/ Irunlarrea, 1
31008 Pamplona, Spain
948 42 56 00
Ext. 806602
Fax: 948 425 740
Contact
Carmen de la source Arrillaga (Technical Dirª.)
sun@unav.es
Research Building, 2nd floor
C/ Irunlarrea, 1
31008 Pamplona, Spain
948 42 56 00
Ext. 806511
Fax: 948 425 740
04|10|2023
The Mediterranean per diem expenses could lose between 12% and 24% of its protection if moderate wine consumption were eliminated.
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Full Professor of the University of Navarra, gives the 18th Stare-Hegsted Nutrition Master Lecture
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01|03|2023
The King and Queen of Spain present the award National Prize of research in Medicine to Miguel Ángel Martínez-González
The Full Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University has been awarded the award Gregorio Marañón for his contributions on
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25|04|2022
"We have shown how adherence to the Mediterranean per diem expensescan reduce heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths by 30%".
Miguel Á. Martínez-González, Full Professor of the University of Navarra, new honorary member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery.
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