Symposium 18: Diet and physical activity: cardiovascular impact

Authors

  • Andrea Morejón Favaloro Foundation, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v56i3Sup.598

Keywords:

diabetes mellitus, physical activity

Abstract

Healthy lifestyle habits, diet and physical activity, undoubtedly are one of the most essential tools in the prevention and treatment of obesity, as well as comorbidities associated with weight. Its proper implementation provides benefits not only related to diet and physical activity, but also allows improving results with concomitant therapies for the treatment of obesity, its comorbidities and reducing cardiovascular risk1.

The role of so many different types of diets have been analyzed. For example, Mediterranean, vegetarian and DASH diets have been shown to improve cardiometabolic parameters to varying degrees2. However, it is important to consider that several individual and sociocultural factors must be taken into account when designing a diet, and therefore there is no single healthy diet that can be universally and invariably implemented for health benefits. However, current evidence has shown the detrimental relationship between the habitual consumption of ultraprocessed products, which increased between 4 to 9% overall cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality3. Therefore, their consumption should be discouraged.

Author Biography

Andrea Morejón, Favaloro Foundation, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Medical Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes

References

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II. Dinu M, Pagliai G, Angelino D, Rosi A, Dall’Asta M, Bresciani L, et al. Effects of popular diets on anthropometric and cardiometabolic parameters: An umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. Adv Nutr 2020;11(4):815-33.

III. Juul F, Vaidean G, Lin Y, Deierlein AL, Parekh N. Ultra-processed foods and incident cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Offspring Study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2021;77(12):1520-31.

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Published

2022-09-01

How to Cite

Morejón, A. (2022). Symposium 18: Diet and physical activity: cardiovascular impact. Journal of the Argentine Society of Diabetes, 56(3Sup), 99–99. https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v56i3Sup.598

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