The Role of Nutrition in Wound Care, Prevention and Healing
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2024 | Viewed by 430
Special Issue Editors
2. National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care, Griffith University, Gold Coast 4222, Australia
Interests: knowledge translation; health services research; value-based care; interdisciplinary collaboration; culturally appropriate care; chronic disease prevention and management
Interests: prevention and management of lifestyle related diseases with a major focus on obesity; insulin resistance; prediabetes and diabetes nutrition assessment health promotion and education systematic review and meta-analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adequate nutrition and hydration are essential to maintaining skin integrity and accelerating tissue repair and wound healing. Conversely, insufficient nutrient intake, dehydration, and protein–energy malnutrition compromise the wound-healing cascade, worsen wound chronicity, and increase the risk of infection, particularly when chronic wounds induce a long-lasting catabolic and inflammatory state. Therefore, international clinical guidelines have highlighted the significance of timely medical nutrition therapy to provide adequate nutrition support to patients with or at high risk of having chronic wounds (including arterial, venous, diabetic, and pressure ulcers) and surgical patients (to enhance recovery after surgery). However, the role of nutrition and hydration is frequently overlooked, and subsequently, there is a low uptake of these clinical guidelines.
Moreover, systematic reviews have illustrated that the impact of specific nutrients or nutritional status on wound care remains unclear, and which nutritional intervention is effective in wound prevention and management necessitates high-quality research.
Therefore, this Special Issue, entitled “The Role of Nutrition in Wound Care, Prevention and Healing”, aims to host original articles, reviews, or meta-analyses that advance current knowledge regarding the impacts of nutrition on the development and management of chronic wounds and surgical wounds and describe novel nutritional approaches for the prevention and treatment of wounds.
Dr. Ching Shan (Angela) Wan
Dr. Mandy Ho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wound care
- wound healing
- wound prevention
- nutrients
- diet
- medical nutrition therapy
- disease-related skincare
- malnutrition
- pressure ulcer
- surgical wound
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