Dietary Pattern and Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic Syndrome (MS) denotes a pathological condition characterized by metabolic disturbances in the processing of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and other substances within the human body. It encompasses a group of complex metabolic related diseases, including overweight, obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and fatty liver disease. With the development of social economy, the incidence and prevalence of MS have increased dramatically worldwide, and has been generally recognized as a risk factor of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Balanced diet is important in the prevention and treatment of MS. At present, despite the numerous studies conducted to investigate the connections between dietary patterns and MS, the populations from the different age groups and the different regions have the different food consumption and dietary patterns.

Thus, there is a critical need to delve deeper into the connections between dietary pattern and MS within populations across various age groups and regions, thereby providing the targeted dietary recommendations. The populations can encompass not only the different age groups like children, adolescents, adults, and elders but also the different regions or countries in the world. Dietary patterns can be assessed using the priori methods such as principal component analysis, or the posteriori methods such as Healthy Eating Index, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, Chinese Healthy Eating Index, Mediterranean Diet, Plant-based Diet, and Western Diet.

This Research Topic aims to explore the relationships between dietary patterns (including the priori and posteriori dietary methods) and MS (including overweight, obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and metabolic related diseases) within population across the different age groups (such as children, adolescents, adults, and elders) and the different regions or countries from the perspective of nutritional epidemiology. Special attention will be paid to the assessment and establishment of dietary patterns among the populations of children, adolescents, and elders. We hope that these studies will shed light on key dietary patterns that influence MS and may lead to the development of appropriate dietary recommendations for patients with MS.

We welcome submissions, including but not limited to the following:

● The relationships between dietary patterns using the priori or posteriori methods and MS, including overweight, obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemia from the perspective of nutritional epidemiology.

● The relationships between various food items or nutrients and MS, including the overall effect of the different food items or nutrients on MS, are evaluated using emerging machine-learning methods such as weighting Quantile Sum, and Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression.

● The relationships between dietary patterns and MS in the populations of different age groups, such as children, adolescents, adults, and elders.

● The relationships between dietary patterns and MS in the populations of different regions or countries.

● Other metabolic diseases associated with dietary patterns, which have not been addressed in previous studies, represent an interesting area of research.

Keywords: Dietary Pattern, Metabolic Syndrome, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Type 2 Diabetes

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