Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with a More Favorable Left Ventricular Geometry in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease.
Dimitra BacharakiIoannis PetrakisPeriklis KyriazisAnastasia MarkakiChristos PlerosGeorgios TsirpanlisMarios TheodoridisOlga BalafaAnastasia GeorgoulidouEleni DrosatakiKonstantinos StylianouPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
The greater adherence to an MD is associated with lesser LVH, an important cardiovascular disease risk factor; MD preserves normal cardiac geometry and may confer protection against future cardiac dysfunction in dialysis patients.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- end stage renal disease
- cardiovascular disease
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- ejection fraction
- risk factors
- newly diagnosed
- molecular dynamics
- heart failure
- acute myocardial infarction
- type diabetes
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- prognostic factors
- oxidative stress
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- adipose tissue
- metabolic syndrome
- glycemic control
- atrial fibrillation