A high carbohydrate, low fat, hypocaloric eating pattern using functional foods along with increased physical activity in postmenopausal women decreases cardiovascular risk factors

Whole-diet interventions and cardiovascular risk factors in postmenopausal women: A systematic review of controlled clinical trials

“…Ninety-one articles were included after titles/abstracts screening. Full-texts screening resulted in exclusion of 63 articles, of which ten studies were conference abstracts (28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37), eight were conducted in populations other than postmenopausal women (38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45), twenty-three did not meet our intervention criteria , and twenty-two were excluded since they were derived from the same projects and/or did not report relevant outcomes . Also, one full-text, published in 1987, could not be retrieved (91).…”