In the past decades, the disease spectrum has significantly changed from infectious diseases to non-communicable chronic diseases mainly including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers. According to the World Health Organization, two-third of global all-cause mortality and 64% of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) are estimated to attribute to the aforementioned chronic diseases contemporarily. It is increasingly becoming apparent that the changes in human nutrition, including certain excess nutrients and malnutrition, have vastly contributed to the global burden of chronic diseases. Therefore, assessment of nutritional status throughout the processes including at the time of being at risk, diagnosis and prognosis of diseases is necessary for disease monitoring, prevention and control among the population.
However, nutritional assessment is not a routine practice in clinical settings, yet still a procedure that needs to be standardized. In recent years, several useful assessment tools for nutritional status such as body composition, metabolomic biomarkers (e.g. free fatty acids and trace elements) and dietary indices have received substantial attention by both researchers and clinicians because of the usefulness, simplicity, robustness, and their valid reflection of dietary behaviors and physical activity levels. For example, body composition may improve our understanding of several physiological and pathophysiological processes, and precise definitions of certain chronic diseases. Thus, these assessments have been drawing much attention in the field of clinical nutrition. Furthermore, it is also an emerging interest to better understand which and how an appropriate assessment tool for nutritional and metabolic status can influence and interact with the development of chronic diseases.
This Research Topic aims to clarify and demonstrate the potential role of different assessment tools in human nutrition and metabolism for the identification and monitoring of non-communicable chronic diseases, as well as to spark insights into the potential of novel and emerging nutritional assessment tools in chronic diseases. We welcome submissions of relevant Original Research, Review, Mini-review, and Opinion articles, including but not limited to:
• Association between current/novel nutritional assessment tools and chronic diseases, mortality, related circulating biomarkers, and risk factors (e.g. total cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, etc.);
• Relationship between body composition and chronic disease management;
• Relationship between metabolomic biomarkers (e.g. free fatty acids and trace elements), dietary index and chronic diseases;
• Mechanisms linking nutritional assessment and chronic diseases;
• Multi-omics studies on chronic disease, e.g., metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics.
In the past decades, the disease spectrum has significantly changed from infectious diseases to non-communicable chronic diseases mainly including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers. According to the World Health Organization, two-third of global all-cause mortality and 64% of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) are estimated to attribute to the aforementioned chronic diseases contemporarily. It is increasingly becoming apparent that the changes in human nutrition, including certain excess nutrients and malnutrition, have vastly contributed to the global burden of chronic diseases. Therefore, assessment of nutritional status throughout the processes including at the time of being at risk, diagnosis and prognosis of diseases is necessary for disease monitoring, prevention and control among the population.
However, nutritional assessment is not a routine practice in clinical settings, yet still a procedure that needs to be standardized. In recent years, several useful assessment tools for nutritional status such as body composition, metabolomic biomarkers (e.g. free fatty acids and trace elements) and dietary indices have received substantial attention by both researchers and clinicians because of the usefulness, simplicity, robustness, and their valid reflection of dietary behaviors and physical activity levels. For example, body composition may improve our understanding of several physiological and pathophysiological processes, and precise definitions of certain chronic diseases. Thus, these assessments have been drawing much attention in the field of clinical nutrition. Furthermore, it is also an emerging interest to better understand which and how an appropriate assessment tool for nutritional and metabolic status can influence and interact with the development of chronic diseases.
This Research Topic aims to clarify and demonstrate the potential role of different assessment tools in human nutrition and metabolism for the identification and monitoring of non-communicable chronic diseases, as well as to spark insights into the potential of novel and emerging nutritional assessment tools in chronic diseases. We welcome submissions of relevant Original Research, Review, Mini-review, and Opinion articles, including but not limited to:
• Association between current/novel nutritional assessment tools and chronic diseases, mortality, related circulating biomarkers, and risk factors (e.g. total cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, etc.);
• Relationship between body composition and chronic disease management;
• Relationship between metabolomic biomarkers (e.g. free fatty acids and trace elements), dietary index and chronic diseases;
• Mechanisms linking nutritional assessment and chronic diseases;
• Multi-omics studies on chronic disease, e.g., metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics.
