Nutrition, Genetics, and Cardiovascular Disease

• Other Authors: El Ghoch, Marwan (Editor), El Shamieh, Said (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; tissue; expression; physiology; dietary intake; nutrition; cardiovascular disease; obesity; hookah; overweight; shisha; abdominal obesity; weight management; treatment; adolescents; arterial stiffness; birth weight; body-size trajectories; cardio-metabolic health; children; growth; intima-media thickness; blood pressure; acute rheumatic fever; rheumatic heart diseases; MT-CYB; mutation; Senegal; hypercholesterolemia; cluster of differentiation 14; rs2569190A> G; single nucleotide polymorphisms; association analysis; n/a
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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 associate...