Dietary Interventions and Usefulness of Biomarkers in Metabolic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 1565
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Interests: type 2 diabetes; obesity; insulin resistance; metabolic syndrome; cardiovascular risk in metabolic diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Metabolic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, obesity, dyslipidemias and metabolic syndrome, are long-duration conditions with a complex determinism. Despite a better understanding of the mechanistic background, they continue to display pandemic prevalences worldwide, with many cases occurring at relatively young ages and generating life-threatening complications. Even though it is currently common knowledge that unhealthy nutrition is often a central predisposing factor leading to the development of metabolic diseases, we are still far away from an efficient solution to their problem. Given the discrepancy between the high number of cases and insufficient healthcare resources, an energetic yet simple approach would seem to be the key. First, we need suitable yet cheap methods for an early diagnosis, ideally identifying the predisposition for a metabolic condition or at least before the disease becomes overt. In recent years, biomarker discovery has experienced exponential development, even establishing the entirely new field of metabolomics. Therefore, identifying molecules that may predict the evolution of or towards metabolic diseases is a reasonable and worthwhile perspective. Second, we need low-cost interventions, available even in low- and middle-income countries, which can offer a high preventive value. For these, humankind has also returned to simplicity in recent decades, when the real health potential of balanced eating patterns has been rediscovered. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses precisely on these two essential poles of nutritional intervention and early diagnosis by biomarkers suitable for metabolic diseases and aims to depict them from the broadest perspective, starting with the molecular, preclinical approach and extending to clinical viewpoints that centre on this connection.
Dr. Cristina-Mihaela Lăcătuşu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutritional intervention
- dietary patterns
- eating habits
- dietary intervention
- healthy eating plan
- biomarkers
- metabolites
- metabolomics
- metabolic profiling
- metabolic remodelling
- metabolic reprogramming
- diabetes mellitus
- obesity
- dyslipidemias
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
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