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Dr. Pauline Raoul

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UOC di Nutrizione Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche Endocrino-Metaboliche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: clinical nutrition; diet; malnutrition; gut microbiota; nutritional support
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the adoption of the Western diet has been associated with the development of multiple non-communicable chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases, gastrointestinal cancers, irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, chronic liver diseases, etc. In this context, numerous animal and human studies have been conducted into the influence of different types of nutritional interventions on the onset/prevention of these gastrointestinal chronic diseases. New research has also shed light on dietary strategies to alleviate gastrointestinal disorders, restore healthy gastrointestinal conditions and/or optimize pharmacological/oncological treatments. Various nutritional patterns and dietary factors, such as low-FODMAP diets, ketogenic or plant-based diets, nutraceuticals, functional foods, novel foods, bioactive compounds, and prebiotics have been recently explored. This Special Issue aims to describe the state of the art of these topics in order to provide nutritional dietary guidelines for the prevention and treatment of these chronic gastrointestinal diseases.

We invite clinicians and researchers to submit systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or relevant narrative reviews to this Special Issue of Nutrients entitled “Featured Reviews on Nutrition to Optimise Human Health”.

Dr. Pauline Raoul
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Keywords

nutrition
gastrointestinal health
non-communicable chronic diseases
diet
dietary patterns
nutraceuticals
novel foods
exclusion diet
bioactive compounds
prebiotics

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Standard and New Echocardio Techniques, Such as Global Longitudinal Strain, to Monitor the Impact of Diets on Cardiovascular Diseases and Heart Function

by Andrea Sartorio, Chiara Dal Pont and Simone Romano

Nutrients 2024, 16(10), 1471; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16101471 - 13 May 2024

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Abstract

“The Seven Countries Study”, published in 1984, was the first study to find a correlation between diet and mortality related to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Since then, many investigations have addressed the relationship between type of diet, or specific nutrients, and CVDs. Based on these findings, some traditional dietary models, such as the Mediterranean or Nordic diet, are recommended to prevent CVDs. Meanwhile, new diets have been proposed for optimal nutrition therapy, for example, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and the Mediterranean–DASH Intervention Diet for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND). The main outcomes evaluated after implementing these dietary models are as follows: CVD-related death; the development of specific CVDs, such as myocardial infarction and hypertension; or biochemical parameters related to CVDs, i.e., non-HDL cholesterol, C-reactive protein (CPR) and homocysteine. However, the early impact of diet on heart functionality is less evaluated. Recently, the echographic measurement of left ventricle (LV) deformation by global longitudinal strain (GLS) has been introduced as a novel marker of clinical and subclinical cardiac dysfunction. This technology allows a subclinical evaluation of heart functionality since, differently from the traditional evaluation of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF), it is capable of detecting early myocardial dysfunction. In this review, we analyzed the available studies that correlate dietetic regimens to cardiovascular diseases, focusing on the relevance of LV strain to detect subclinical myocardial alteration related to diet. Evidence is presented that DASH and MIND can have a positive impact on heart functionality and that myocardial strain is useful for early detection of diet-related changes in cardiac function. Full article

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