Nutrigenetics-personalized nutrition in obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

ABSTRACT: Epidemiological data support the view that both obesity and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) account for a high proportion of total morbidity and mortality in adults throughout the world. Obesity and CVD have complex interplay mechanisms of genetic and environmental factors, including diet. Nutrition is an environmental factor and it has a predominant and recognizable role in health management and in the prevention of obesity and obesity-related diseases, including CVD. However, there is a marked variation in CVD in patients with obesity and the same dietary pattern. The different genetic polymorphisms could explain this variation, which leads to the emergence of the concept of nutrigenetics. Nutritional genomics or nutrigenetics is the science that studies and characterizes gene variants ass

SUBMITTER: Barrea L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7371677 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature