The Effect of Potassium on Human Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Micronutrients and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2024 | Viewed by 18740
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary potassium is highly relevant to human nutrition. The effect of potassium on the human’s body is wide, involving all cells and tissues. Potassium plays a key role in several physiological mechanisms, especially in the neuroendocrine system and in the regulation of blood pressure. Several experimental and clinical data have shown a favorable relationship between potassium-rich diet and cardiovascular disease. However, these results do not allow the detection of appropriate potassium intake thresholds to prevent cardiovascular disease and reduce cardiovascular risk in different settings (e.g., general population, patients with chronic kidney disease or in pharmacological treatment that affects potassium handling). Similarly, few data are also available on potassium supplement (e.g., potassium-enriched salt) and on involvement of potassium intake in non-cardiovascular diseases, such as nephrolithiasis, bone disease, and altered glucose metabolism. Given these premises, this Special Issue aims to focus on new evidence or reviews of current literature about the effect of potassium intake on different outcomes and the potential applications of artificial intelligence in this context in order to collect a large body of data on plausible thresholds of recommended dietary or supplemental potassium intake in healthy individuals and in different conditions to support primary or secondary prevention of different diseases.
Dr. Lanfranco D’Elia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary potassium
- potassium intake
- urinary potassium
- potassium supplement
- salt substitute
- cardiovascular disease
- blood pressure
- atherosclerosis
- kidney
- nephrolithiasis
- bone
- glucose metabolism
- artificial intelligence
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