Dietary Considerations for the Prevention and Management of Liver Disease

Dear Colleagues,

“Let food be thy medicine”

Since ancient times, healthy foods and balanced nutrition have been considered as key therapeutic tools in medicine. Indeed, diet is explicitly mentioned as a useful salutogenic measure in the Corpus Hippocraticum and the Hippocratic oath.

Regarding etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, progression, and treatment prospects, eating patterns and nutritional status are critical factors in a variety of liver disorders. These associations are relevant not only in acute conditions (e.g., acute liver failure), but also in chronic liver diseases (e.g., cirrhosis and its complications). Furthermore, nutritional assessment and interventions in patients with hepatic conditions are important as supportive and adjuvant approaches, but they may also be a key therapeutic determinant for some specific conditions (e.g., metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease). Despite these significant relationships, major gaps in knowledge and practice remain between nutrition and hepatology.

In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we will address several important aspects of this interdisciplinary biomedical field based on new and clinically relevant information that may impact patient care, as well as lead to novel opportunities for research and discovery.

Among others, potential topics to be considered for publication in this issue are:

• Weight loss interventions/dietary patterns and components/plant-based foods and their bioactive compounds in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease;
• Nutritional assessment and management of liver cirrhosis in compensated and decompensated states;
• Enteral versus parenteral nutrition in acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure;
• Phytosterols/Omega-3 PUFA in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease;
• Probiotics and dietary interventions in hepatic encephalopathy;
• Combating sarcopenia in liver disease;
• Nutritional supplementation after liver transplantation.

Prof. Dr. Attilio Rigotti
Prof. Dr. Marco Arrese
Guest Editors

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• liver
• liver cirrhosis
• acute liver failure
• nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
• NAFLD
• hepatic encephalopathy
• hepatitis
• hepatocellular
• metabolism
• diet
• nutrition
• bioactive compounds
• nutritional assessment
• phytosterols
• Omega-3 PUFA
• probiotics
• sarcopenia