Klaus KA Witte and Andrew L Clark
Cardiovascular disease is the greatest cause of mortality in developed countries and diet plays an important role in contributing to the development and progression of ischemic heart disease IHD . The influences of general nutrition and micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals on the progression of IHD are poorly understood and recent studies have done little to clarify the situation. A micronutrient can be regarded as any essential dietary component present in trace amounts. Micronutrients...
Diet And Heart Failure
The incidence of chronic heart failure CHF , the common end-result of most cardiac diseases, is increasing steadily in many countries despite and probably because of considerable improvements in the acute and chronic treatment of CHD, which is currently the main cause of CHF in most countries.36 In recent years, most CHF research effort has focused on drug treatment, and little attention has been paid to nonpharmacological management. Some unidentified factors may indeed contribute to the rise...