Nutrition, Genetics, and Cardiovascular Disease

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Medicine and Nursing; abdominal obesity; acute rheumatic fever; adolescents; arterial stiffness; association analysis; birth weight; blood pressure; body-size trajectories; cardio-metabolic health; cardiovascular disease; children; cluster of differentiation 14; dietary intake; expression; G; growth; hookah; hypercholesterolemia; intima-media thickness; MT-CYB; mutation; n/a; nutrition; obesity; overweight; physiology; renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; rheumatic heart diseases; rs2569190A> Senegal; shisha; single nucleotide polymorphisms; tissue; treatment; weight management
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (102 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039432400; 9783039432417; books978-3-03943-241-7
• Access: Open Access

Cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death worldwide, in which genetic and environmental factors seem to play a determinant role. In fact, several lifestyle (i.e., dietary, physical inactivity) factors and nutritional-related diseases (i.e., obesity, type 2 diabetes) are strongly associated with cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, genome-wide association studies have also identified numerous genomic loci that determine susceptibility to cardiovascular events. Therefore, nutrition and genetics seem to interact in predisposing an individual to cardiovascular diseases. This book provides a presentation of recent advances in knowledge on nutrition, genetics, and cardiovascular disease coming from diverse scientific disciplines.