Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1479b

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Other antinutritional factors may also have a role

Gema Fruhbeck

Research fellow Department of Physiology and Nutrition, University of Navarra, 31080 Pamplona, Spain

EDITOR,—Paul Knekt and colleagues report an inverse association between intake of flavonoids and incidence of coronary mortality.1 Their data also show that the protective effect of flavonoids was associated with a diet high in intake of apples and onions.1 I would like to draw attention to a point that Knekt and colleagues mention in their discussion: “thus it cannot be excluded that the association in the present study between intake …