The Role of Nutrition in Cardiometabolic Health

<p>The purpose of this Special Issue The Role of Nutrition in Cardiometabolic Health: Experimental Clinical and Community-Based Evidence is to publish a focused coherent impactful and well-cited volume on how nutrition influences diverse cardiometabolic risk factors. Cardiometabolic diseases such as coronary heart disease stroke type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity is the leading cause of death worldwide. In recent years dietary habits have shifted all over the globe. At the same time a constantly growing body of evidence demonstrates the role of caloric intake and dietary composition as determinants of cardiometabolic health. Suboptimal diet predisposes to a myriad of cardiometabolic risk factors such as impaired glucose metabolism insulin resistance dyslipidaemias and high blood pressure.</p>