Hygiena 2020, 65(4):140-151 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1764

Nutritional recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases - evidence, formulation, controversies and ambiguities

Jindřich Fiala
Masarykova univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Ústav ochrany a podpory zdraví, Brno, Česká republika

The aim of the article is to summarise the currently valid nutritional recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The basis is an overview of the main points of two recent clinical recommendations of medical societies, namely the European Recommendations 2016 and the American AHA Recommendations 2019, and their commentary. It turns out that many of the former recommendations have had to be reconsidered and are no longer valid. At the same time much remains unclear and some new findings are still contradictory and controversial. It seems that in the near future it will be necessary to further revise the nutritional recommendations for cardiovascular prevention and re-evaluate some of the existing views and approaches.

Keywords: cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, disease prevention, dietary guidelines

Received: July 2020; Accepted: November 27, 2020; Published: December 17, 2020  Show citation

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