Atherosclerosis prevention: the role of special diets and functional food
Vasily Petrovich Karagodin, Vasily Nikolaevich Sukhorukov, Alexander Nikolaevich Orekhov, Shaw-Fang Yet, Igor A Sobenin, Vasily Petrovich Karagodin, Vasily Nikolaevich Sukhorukov, Alexander Nikolaevich Orekhov, Shaw-Fang Yet, Igor A Sobenin
Abstract
Accumulating evidence highlight the importance of diet in the pathogenesis as well as prevention of atherosclerosis. In this review, we summarize the results of recent studies that demonstrate direct and indirect effects if functional foods and their analogues in prevention of initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. We discuss the epidemiological and clinical observations of such diets and dicuss their effects on the pathological mechanisms that drive atherosclerosis at cellular and molecular level.
Source: PubMed