Diet, Environmental Factors and Autoimmune Diseases: Can We Find a Path for Preventive Lifestyle?

Dear Colleagues,

Cumulative reports indicate that dietary intake and other life-style aspects would have a significant impact on autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. For example, the quality of diet, intake of green tea catechin, history of smoking, and vitamin D levels via exposure to sunlight are proposed to modulate the immune response, possibly playing a role in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases. Such findings imply that we may be able to open a new avenue to prevent or manage autoimmune diseases by modifying our lifestyle, in which dietary intake being the critical factor.

The Special Issue aims to provide a forum to discuss the potential contribution of dietary intake, nutrients, and other nutrition-related habits or lifestyle in autoimmune diseases, seeking their possible roles in preventing the diseases' occurrence or progression.  In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: diet, nutrition, nutrients, minerals, periodontal diseases, smoking, alcohol, gut microbiota, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, systemic sclerosis, Behcet disease, idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, autoimmune thyroiditis. I am looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kayo Masuko
Guest Editor

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