Physiological Aspects of Nutritional Problems in Obliterative Vascular Disease

Nutritional aspects of disease.

Low-carbohydrate diets: nutritional and physiological aspects.

Recently, diets low in carbohydrate content have become a matter of international attention because of the WHO recommendations to reduce the overall consumption of sugars and rapidly digestible starches. One of the common metabolic changes assumed to take place when a person follows a low-carbohydrate diet is ketosis. Low-carbohydrate intakes result in a reduction of the circulating insulin lev...

Nutritional and dietary aspects of celiac disease.

Celiac disease (CD) is a primarily digestive systemic disease triggered and maintained by the ingestion of gluten in the diet. Its has a wide clinical spectrum of manifestations, particularly varied in adult patients, in whom, because of their frequent negative serology and mild, nonspecific symptoms, there is a considerable delay in diagnosis. The intestinal lesion caused by CD leads to variou...

Nutritional aspects and possible pathological mechanisms of hyperhomocysteinaemia: an independent risk factor for vascular disease.

Numerous case-control and prospective studies have identified elevated plasma homocysteine as a strong independent risk factor for cerebovascular, cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease. Homocysteine is formed as a result of the breakdown of the dietary amino acid methionine. Once formed, homocysteine is either remethylated to methionine, or undergoes a trans-sulfuration reaction to for...

Problems in Peripheral Vascular Disease

THIS is the English edition (by Dr Gunn) of a detailed, step-by-step instruction manual for the full physical examination of patients. It is the product of Dr Lordwick and members of the "Skills Laboratory" of the Medical School in the University of Limburg, Holland. The basic aim is that students should acquire the medical skills of patient examination in a systematic and reasonably standardiz...