The Role of Dietary Patterns in Malnutrition – Relevance of Body Weight upon Non-communicable Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

Non-communicable diseases are the main responsible for morbidity and mortality worldwide. Adequate nutrition and body weight have a crucial role in their development and progression.

We invite authors to submit original basic and clinical research or survey articles as well as up-to-date review articles (meta-analyses and systematic reviews) that pursue the crosstalk between dietary patterns, malnutrition, body weight and non-communicable diseases.

Potential topics include, although not limited to:

• Underweight, overweight and obesity: pathophysiological aspects as well as preventive and therapeutic dietary options;
• Non-communicable diseases: link with body weight range and/or dietary patterns;
• Body weight-associated epigenetic mechanisms;
• Malnutrition: pathophysiological aspects as well as preventive and therapeutic dietary options;
• Malnutrition-associated epigenetic mechanisms;
• Mechanisms, including molecular, proteomic and metabolomic characterization, of the contribution of dietary patterns to non-communicable diseases;
• Dietary patterns and metabolic reprogramming;
• Potential preventive and therapeutic effects of specific diets against non-communicable diseases;
• Dietary and body weight-control-by-diet educational programmes.

Dr. Maria Martins
Dr. Delminda Neves
Dr. Rosário Monteiro
Guest Editors

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