Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies

Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies.

The potential cardiovascular benefits of several trending foods and dietary patterns are still incompletely understood, and nutritional science continues to evolve. However, in the meantime, a number of controversial dietary patterns, foods, and nutrients have received significant media exposure and are mired by hype. This review addresses some of the more popular foods and dietary patterns tha...

Controversies in Cardiovascular Research

The first two articles in this issue of CIRCULATION RESEARCH by Jos A. E. Spaan and Francis /. Klocke et al. address various aspects of coronary pressure-flow relationships which have been a matter of some controversy in recent years. Issues such as the physiological significance of zero flow pressure and the role of intramyocardial compliance are important for our understanding of the regulati...

Controversies in cardiovascular medicine revisited.

Over the last decade, the Controversies in Cardiovascular Medicine section has established a position as a popular and frequently downloaded section of Circulation. Controversy is inherent to medicine and other disciplines when a course of action must be taken on the basis of insufficient evidence. Like debates at scientific meetings, published controversies generate considerable interest becau...

Nutrition and cardiovascular health.

Nutrition and cardiovascular disease.

The major cardiovascular diseases affecting the developed world have at their core atherosclerosis and hypertension, both of which are profoundly affected by diet and can be approached, at least in part, from a nutritional point of view, as can the increasing "epidemic" of obesity. Diet is a multi-component mixture of many nutrients, which may interact with one another. The definitive study of ...