Dietary Factors on Cardiovascular and Endocrine Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 15359
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; women’s health; maternal and infantile health care; phytochemicals and chronic diseases prevention; geriatric health; gut microbiota; food safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutritional imbalances play a role of great magnitude in the pathogenesis and progress of cardio-metabolic risk and endocrine dysfunction. Dietary factors have been studied as a modifiable lifestyle factor in improvement of these diseases process and prognosis. Micro- and macronutrients, healthy food groups and dietary patterns, bioactive dietary components have shown to be associated with reduced odds of cardio-metabolic and endocrinal risk, while unhealthy foods or dietary patterns like sugar sweetened beverages, fast food, ultra-processed foods, dietary sourced endocrine disruptive chemicals and nutrition transition to a westernized diet greatly increased cardiovascular and endocrinal diseases burden. This heterogeneous influence on affected individuals may reflect complex interactions between nutrition with genetic susceptibilities and environmental factors emphasizing the importance of gene-diet-environment interplay and nutritional programming studies. More studies are warranted by employing validated quantitative methods, integration of nutrients analysis, innovative biomarkers and omics data to accurately measure diet, explore potential mechanisms, and confirm the findings among different populations. This Special Issue is dedicated to provide information on the potential role of human nutrition on the prevention or management of cardio-metabolic and endocrinal disorders or their related risk factors, or the diseases’ prognosis. Articles on potential mechanisms are welcome but need to go with the results of human studies (clinical trials or observational studies). The finding will help forming healthy dietary strategies for improvement of human health.
Prof. Dr. Zhaomin Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition
- dietary factors
- functional foods
- trace elements
- fatty acids
- nutraceutical components
- vitamins
- probiotics
- dietary oxidants
- cardiovascular diseases and risk factors
- metabolic diseases and factors
- endocrine diseases (obesity, pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid, bone and growth disorders, and reproduction)