Dietary Patterns and Clinical Health Outcomes
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 13205
Special Issue Editors
2. Center of Sustainability and Ecological Transition (CSTE), University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy
3. Unit of Clinical Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolic Diseases–University Hospital Policlinico “P. Giaccone”, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Interests: obesity; diabetes; diet; clinical nutrition; longevity; lipodistrophy; cardiovascular prevention; endothelial function; indirect calorimetry; body composition
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2. Unit of Internal Medicine, Villa Sofia-Cervello Hospital, 90100 Palermo, Italy
Interests: obesity; diabetes; diet; clinical nutrition; cardiovascular prevention; geriatrics and longevity
2. Unit of Clinical Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolic Diseases–University Hospital Policlinico “P. Giaccone”, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Interests: obesity; diabetes; diet; clinical nutrition; lipodistrophy; cardiovascular prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health and dietary patterns are in a strict and complicated connection that is still far from fully understood. Diet is, at the same time, a protecting and causal factor of diseases; it is also an important treatment for many clinical conditions. Nevertheless, this is an open and continuously changing matter. Classical influences on the health of dietary patterns have been identified as Mediterranean, vegetarian, low-fat, Western, junk-food, ketogenic, low/high glycemic index diets, etc., the quality of food and chemical contaminants per se that result from both environmental factors and the industrial procedures of production in food may independently have an impact on health outcomes. Dietary patterns also need rethinking regarding new social-economic changes in actual societies, with particular reference to the evolution of globalized and multiethnic societies. Another important question concerns whether dietary patterns have always had an independent effect on clinical health outcomes per se or if this is mediated by other conditions, such as obesity or changes in gut microbiota. Considering traditional outcome measures linking health and diet, such as blood pressure or blood concentrations of glucose, lipids or other molecules and hormones, today, other powerful and promising outcome measures, such as genetics, including nutrigenomic, endothelial function, AGEs and glycemic variability, are available. Finally, different methods of investigation, ranging from clinical epidemiology to clinical trials of intervention, are now well-defined methods of research even in the field of modern clinical nutrition. This Special Issue welcomes scientific contributions that consider all these aspects when investigating the clinical health outcomes of dietary factors and patterns that are probably the most important determinants of health.
Prof. Dr. Silvio Buscemi
Dr. Carola Buscemi
Guest Editors
Dr. Cristiana Randazzo
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diet
- health
- non-communicable diseases
- food
- clinical nutrition
- longevity
- obesity
- diabetes
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