Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: Finding the Perfect Recipe for Cardiovascular Health.

ABSTRACT: The increasing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) despite the progress in management entails the need of more effective preventive and curative strategies. As dietary-associated risk is the most important behavioral factor influencing global health, it appears the best target in the challenge against CVD. Although for many years, since the formulation of the cholesterol hypothesis, a nutrient-based approach was attempted for CVD prevention and treatment, in recent years a dietary-based approach resulted more effective in reducing cardiovascular risk worldwide. After the publication of randomized trials on the remarkable effects of the Mediterranean diet and the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet on CVD, new efforts were put on research about the effects of complex dietar

SUBMITTER: Ravera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4924204 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature