Effect of Nutritional Supplements on Autoimmune Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 2992
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aging; allergy; clinical immunology; complement system; kidney; nutrition; rheumatology; rare diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Nutritional deficiencies are associated with a pro-inflammatory status and co-morbidities. Defects in nutritional status are common among patients with chronic disorders, including patients with systemic autoimmune diseases. As occurs in chronic kidney diseases, nutritional status affects patients’ outcome and represents a target of treatments and a need to address. Similarly, aging is associated with nutritional deficiencies that can be related to co-morbidities, drugs, and certainly immune aging.
The interplay between immune cells and nutritional factors plays a relevant role in this context. Unravelling the interactions between immune system and nutritional factors (“nutritional immunology”) is crucial for the early detection of patients at risk of a worse outcome and, thus, to design potential therapeutic interventions.
This Special Issue, “Effect of Nutritional Supplements on Autoimmune Disease”, will focus on advances in our understanding of the intriguing interplay between immune system and nutritional factors in the context of the immune aging and chronic diseases. It thus will discuss the “nutritional immunology” in several categories of patients: subjects with chronic renal dysfunctions (including autoimmune renal diseases), patients affected by defined systemic autoimmune diseases (manly rare conditions), and older adults.
Dr. Paola Triggianese
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aging
- autoimmunity
- complement System
- connective tissue diseases
- immune cells
- micronutrients
- nutrition
- kidney
- rare diseases.
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