Bioactive Foods and Ingredients for Cardiovascular Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 6044
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food; nutrigenomics; transcriptomics; CVD; bioactive plant compounds; polyphenols
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food bioactives; nutritional and metabolic diseases; sustainable diets; antibodies; antioxidants; food chemistry; eating habits; immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is evident that in spite of significant progress in its prediction, diagnosis, and treatment, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, with even grimmer projections for the future. The focus is unquestionably shifting to prevention and targeting modifiable risk factors, where dietary factors have been highlighted, once again, as a major determinant of risk. Acknowledging the effect of food systems on our planet, a balanced, varied diet rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, with less meat, dairy, simple sugars, and unhealthy fats is widely promoted for both the planet and people, significantly benefiting our cardiovascular health.
This concept requires significant changes; though, it is putatively considered as the only possible option for sustainable living and health. To be fully accepted as such, we require critical scientific evidence substantiating the underlying health claims. Scientists across the globe aim address the existing gaps and broaden our understanding of the effects of bioactive foods, ingredients, and diet on traditional CVD risk factors (e.g., glycemia, lipids, and blood pressure), and emerging factors (e.g., platelets, monocytes, and functional measures of endothelial health). Cutting-edge analytical techniques are used to measure bioactive compounds in foods and their metabolites in the body. Medicinal and edible herbs, traditional foods, and indigenous fruits and vegetables with promising CVD effects are being tested. Clinical trials are redesigned modified to better fit dietary interventions, considering the effect size and inter-individual variation in response. Omics techniques and system biology approaches are used to explain the effects matrix. New CVD-relevant modulators (e.g., extracellular vesicles and miRNA) are employed as biomarkers and proposed as nutritherapeutic tools. Finally, AI, big data, and machine learning methods are applied, with significant shifts in data collection and analysis, and data-driven conclusions are generated, offering new opportunities to tackle our planet’s most urgent problems.
This Special Issue aims to present the current knowledge and cutting-edge research in all these areas or any others at the interface between bioactive foods and cardiovascular health.
If you are engaged in research on bioactive foods and food compounds and their effects on cardiovascular disease, we sincerely invite you to contribute.
Dr. Dragan Milenkovic
Dr. Aleksandra Konic Ristic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive foods
- functional food
- phytochemicals
- nutraceuticals
- extraction
- cardiovascular diseases
