Low Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Characterizes Metabolic Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer.

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"This research was funded by AIRC IG 2019 “Regulation of lipid metabolic pathways in the gut liver axis: relevance in hepatocarcinoma” Id 23239 awarded to Antonio Moschetta. It was also funded by MIUR- PRIN Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale 2022 “Metabolic hits in the road to colon cancer” Codice progetto n. 2022H9MPZ5 awarded to Antonio Moschetta. It was also funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4, Component 2 Investment 1.3—Call for tender No. 341 of 15 March 2022 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union—Next Generation EU; project code PE00000003, Concession Decree No. 1550 of 11 October 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP D93C22000890001, project title “ON Foods—Research and innovation network on food and nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security—Working ON Foods” awarded to Antonio Moschetta. This study was also funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4, Component 2 Investment 1.4—Call for tender No. 3138 of 16/12/2021 of the Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union—NextGenerationEU; project code: CN00000041, CUP H93C22000430007, project title “National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology” awarded to Antonio Moschetta. It was funded as well by the European Union—Next Generation EU—PNRR M6C2—Investimento 2.1 Valorizzazione e potenziamento della ricerca biomedica del SSN”, project code PNRR-MR1-2022-12376395. CUP H93C22000780006, project title: Italian Autoimmune Liver Disease (IT-AILD) Clinical Research Network (CRN) awarded to Antonio Moschetta. It was also funded by PON “RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE” 2014-2020—Innovazione (D.M. 10 AGOSTO 2021, N. 1062) awarded to Raffaella Maria Gadaleta. This study was also funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3—Call for tender No. 341 of 15 March 2022 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union—NextGeneration EU; Award Number: project code PE0000015, Concession Decree No. 1243 of 2 August 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP H33C22000680006, project title “Ageing well in an ageing society—A novel public-private alliance to generate socioeconomic, biomedical and technological solutions for an inclusive Italian ageing society– AGE-IT” awarded to Lucilla Crudele."