Diet and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dear Colleagues,

The impact of food on a person’s health, body and mind, has been known since the Hippocratic era. Since then, major advances in our understanding of the role of nutrition in health and disease have taken place; more recently, also in the field of rheumatic diseases.  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune, chronic disease, greatly influenced by lifestyle factors including dietary habits and nutrition. Increasingly RA patients (and MD and GP) are enquiring about the role of nutrition in their disease progression and management; a subject that once used to be poorly addressed (if addressed at all) in routine clinical practice. In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we hope to throw more light and improve understanding into the role of diet in RA . We hope to achieve this through a series of manuscripts that address topics ranging from the role of important  and negletted  nutrients in mechanistic processes triggering inflammation, through to practical tips on how to ‘use’ diet to improve disease course and outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis.

Prof. Maurizio Cutolo
Dr. Elena Nikiphorou
Guest Editors

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