Diabetes, Lifestyle and Genetics
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2022) | Viewed by 46665
Special Issue Editors
2. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
3. Sleep Center of Excellence, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
4. Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Interests: obesity; cardiovascular disease; mediterranean diet; nutrigenetic; nutrigenomic; sleep deprivation; circadian rhythms; taste perception; aging
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2. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Interests: precision nutrition; omics; Mediterranean diet; lifestyle; cardiovascular disease; obesity; nutrigenomics; epigenomics; metabolomics; transcriptomic; gene–diet interaction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prevalence of diabetes has risen dramatically for decades, being one of the most important health problems in modern society. According to the World Health Organization, 422 million people worldwide have diabetes and 1.6 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year. The presence of diabetes could lead serious long-term complications, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetic retinopathy, or kidney failure. Thus, early detection should be a priority in public health. The current obesogenic environment, favoring non-healthy food intake, physical inactivity, and circadian misalignment (a mismatch between endogenous circadian rhythms and behavior) is a major driver of the growing diabetes epidemic. In addition, genetic variants in specific genes exhibit significant associations with diabetes, although the underlying mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. With these premises, the need arises for more exhaustive approaches focused on the study of lifestyle factors—mainly diet, physical activity, or sleep patterns—or genetic factors in diabetes, as well as the interaction between both to rigorously predict the risk of developing diabetes and optimize its treatment once diagnosed.
Dr. Rocío Barragán
Prof. Dr. Dolores Corella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diabetes
- diet
- sleep
- polymorphism
- gene-diet interaction
- circadian misalignment
- physical activity
- glucose
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