Nutritional considerations for peripheral arterial disease: A narrative review

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    Abstract

    Those with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) require important considerations with respect to food and nutrition, owing to advanced age, poor diet behaviours and immobility associated with the disease process and co-morbid state. These considerations, coupled with the economic effectiveness of medical nutrition therapy, mandate that dietetic care plays a vital role in the management of PAD. Despite this, optimising dietetic care in PAD remains poorly understood. This narrative review considers the role of medical nutrition therapy in every stage of the PAD process, ranging from the onset and initiation of disease to well established and advanced disease. In each case, the potential benefits of traditional and novel medical nutrition therapy are discussed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1219
    Number of pages15
    JournalNutrients
    Volume11
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2019

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    This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

    Keywords

    • Atherosclerosis
    • Malnutrition
    • Peripheral arterial disease
    • Medical nutrition therapy

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