MLX and myocardial infarction: Moreover, focusing on myocardial infarction, although the results of the PREDIMED study did not show a statistically significant MedDiet protection for myocardial infarction incidence, in a nutrigenetic study in PREDIMED participants [64], we did show the protective effect of the MedDiet in individuals with a certain Max-like protein x (MLX) interacting protein like (MLXIPL) variant.