Nutrition, Lifestyles, and Metabolomics in Diabetes

A special issue of Diabetology (ISSN 2673-4540).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 2770

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1. Faculty of Pharmacy, Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada
2. Health and Society Research Center, Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada
Interests: nutrition; medication; metabolomics; cardiometabolic health; cardiovascular health

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Dear Colleagues,

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects >400 million adults worldwide. Diet and lifestyle undisputedly play a major role in its prevention. While there is a substantial body of evidence supporting the beneficial relationship between healthy diet or lifestyle and diabetes prevention, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear in most cases. The integration of metabolomics into nutritional and lifestyle studies may provide valuable information on the biochemical pathways underlying the relationship between diet, lifestyle, and diabetes prevention. The use of metabolomics also has great discovery potential with regard to dietary and lifestyle prevention of diabetes complications such as cardiovascular diseases. We are therefore pleased to invite you to submit your article to the Special Issue “Nutrition, Lifestyles, and Metabolomics in Diabetes” in Diabetology. This Special Issue aims to publish latest findings to advance our understanding on the interplay between diet, lifestyle, metabolomics, and type 2 diabetes prevention and management. Articles than integrate metabolomics into large cohort studies or clinical trials are particularly welcome. We would also be pleased to consider narrative and systematic reviews, as well as meta-analyses of recent studies.

We look forward to receiving your contributions

Dr. Jean Philippe Drouin-Chartier
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Keywords

  • nutrition
  • lifestyle
  • pharmacology
  • metabolomics
  • diabetes
  • cardiometabolic disease
  • cardiovascular disease

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Augmentation and Evaluation of an Olive Oil Based Polyherbal Combination against Diabetic Cardiomyopathy in Experimental Model of Rodents
by Arshiya Shamim, Hefazat H. Siddiqui, Tarique Mahmood, Tanveer A. Wani, Seema Zargar, Mohammad Haris Siddiqui, Alvina Farooqui, Farogh Ahsan, Mohammad Shariq, Saba Parveen, Muhammad Wahajuddin, Pranay Wal and Akash Ved
Diabetology 2022, 3(4), 561-582; https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology3040043 - 2 Nov 2022
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Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that is prima facie a cause for numerous macro and micro vascular complications. A common macroscopic complication associated with diabetes is cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle, where the heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick, [...] Read more.
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that is prima facie a cause for numerous macro and micro vascular complications. A common macroscopic complication associated with diabetes is cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy refers to diseases of the heart muscle, where the heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick, or rigid. As cardiomyopathy worsens, the heart becomes weaker and is unable to conduct the right amount of blood through the body and maintain a normal electrical rhythm. This can lead to heart failure or arrhythmias. Chronic diabetes is one of the instigating factors behind the etiology of this cardiac complication. Type-II diabetes is associated with impaired glucose metabolism that increases the dependence of a diabetic heart on fatty acid oxidation to meet its functional demands, resulting in mitochondrial uncoupling, glucotoxicity, lipotoxicity and initially subclinical cardiac dysfunction that finally gives way to heart failure. The increasing diabetic population with cardiac disorders and the ironically decreasing trend in newer medications to counter this complication leave us at a crossroads for pharmacological management of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Keeping this in view, the present study proclaims a newly developed polyherbal combination (PHC) with three herbs, namely Tinospora cordifolia, Withania somnifera and Boerhavia diffusa based in olive oil and administered in fixed dose (PHC-6 and PHC-10) to screen its cardioprotective potential against a well-established experimental model for diabetic cardiomyopathy. The three herbs mentioned have been known through the traditional literature for their antidiabetic and cardioprotective roles, hence they became the obvious choice. The study follows an experimental model proposed by Reed et al., where the capacity of the β-cell is unobtrusively impeded without totally compromising insulin release, bringing about a moderate disability in glucose resilience. Various sophisticated parameters, namely intraventricular septum thickness of hearts, Western blot of α/β- MHC monoclonal antibody (Ab), cardiac pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity, medium chain acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase (MCAD) enzyme, etc. showed promising results where treatment with PHC (PHC-6 and PHC-10) significantly (*** p < 0.001 and **** p < 0.0001) prevented the symptoms of cardiomyopathy in subsequent groups when compared to disease control group. Full article
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