Diet and Vascular Disease
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1983
Special Issue Editors
Interests: catecholamines; ABPM; dietary sodium; blood pressure measurement
Interests: pituitary; diabetes insipidus; SIADH; salt intake; secondary hypertension
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Dear Colleagues,
The dietary approach plays a primary role in vascular and heart disease. Although a reduction in dietary salt is recommended as the main approach in hypertension, kidney diseases and heart failure, much debate still exists about how low a low-sodium diet should be; in recent years a great discussion among scientists has been ignited and many papers have expressed different views. In fact, even the methods for the evaluation of sodium intake are under scrutiny. Furthermore, although table salt represents the common source of dietary sodium, confusion still exists in the literature about salt and sodium amounts, weights and roles.
Diet is a basic step in the treatment of dyslipidaemias, too, even if the pharmacological approach remains irreplaceable in cardiovascular prevention.
Additionally, in the secondary forms of hypertension, sodium has been shown to play a strong role in inducing target organ damage, such as left ventricular hypertrophy.
In this Special Issue of the journal Life, some international authors active in these research sectors will review the evidence on the role of dietary factors in the pathophysiology of the vascular diseases and in the induction of organ damage, clarifying the different views in this relevant field and contributing to this fierce debate.
Dr. Natale Musso
Dr. Federico Gatto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiovascular disease
- cardiovascular risk
- diet
- dyslipidaemias
- heart failure
- human
- hypertension
- sodium
- salt
