Hyperlipidaemia and cardiovascular disease--back to basics: dietary patterns, foods and cardiovascular risk.

摘要

Diet and other lifestyle measures remain the mainstay of cardiovascular prevention. They gain even more importance in the face of current obesity epidemics. Yet dietary recommendations are often confusing, and could be contradictory in different medical specialties. Dietary patterns are important, and yet recommendations often focus on particular nutrients in a way not directly translatable into practical measures. Changing the diet is never an issue of simple avoidance of a particular nutrient; it is about changing the pattern. Here, recent articles address the effects of the Mediterranean dietary pattern, and that of coffee and particular kinds of tea on cardiovascular diseases (CVD).