Nutritional Status in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2024 | Viewed by 1828
Special Issue Editors
2. Pediatric Service, Section of Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Avenida Ramón y Cajal, 3, 47003 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: gastrointestinal and nutritional pathologies in children; cystic fibrosis; eating disorders; malnutrition; celiac disease
Interests: food safety; food biofortification; micronutrients; macronutrients; nutritional status of children and adolescents; malnutrition; chronic diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition is an essential issue at every age. Children need proper nutrients to grow, develop, and stay healthy and strong. During the past decade, rapid expansion in several relevant scientific fields, and, in particular, in the amount of population-based epidemiological evidence, has helped to clarify the role of diet in morbidity prevention, treatment, and control, as well as premature mortality due to chronic childhood diseases. Some of the specific dietary components that increase the probability of disease occurrence in individuals, as well as interventions used to modify their impact, have also been identified.
Over the past fifty years, chronic diseases and disabilities among children and youth have increased steadily, primarily from four common classes of diseases: asthma, obesity, mental illness, and neurodevelopmental disorders. In 2017, more than 2.1 billion children and adolescents were affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Epidemiological studies suggest that approximately one in four children suffer from a chronic condition. Moreover, adult-onset NCDs could appear in these populations at younger ages and with greater severity.
This Special Issue will include manuscripts that focus on nutrition, diet, nutritional treatment, and/or health status in relation to chronic childhood disease prevention, control, and symptom management. The presented materials are the result of international scientific cooperation between experts specializing in these issues. This content may be useful for clinical practitioners and will hopefully inspire further innovative research.
Dr. José Manuel Marugán-de-Miguelsanz
Guest Editor
Dr. Marlene Fabiola Escobedo-Monge
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- dietary intake
- body composition
- inflammatory status
- precision medicine
