维生素E和心血管疾病:对公共健康的兴趣?
Ana Gabriella Costa Lemos da Silva1, Karla Danielly da Silva Ribeiro2, Graciele Eloise Alves de Araújo2
1Graduate Program in Public Health, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
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|June 29, 2023
概括
维生素E缺乏 (VED) 是一个公共卫生问题,低水平与心血管疾病 (CVD) 风险增加有关. 对维生素E进行进一步的研究.
科学领域:
- 营养科学 营养科学
- 心血管健康 心血管健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 心血管疾病 (CVD) 是全球主要的死亡原因.
- 低维生素E状态与心血管事件风险增加有关.
- 维生素E缺乏症 (VED) 和心血管疾病的同时存在尚未在以人口为基础的研究中得到广泛研究.
研究的目的:
- 综合当前关于维生素E状态与心血管疾病之间关系的知识.
- 在维生素E的背景下,确定有助于和保护心血管疾病发展的因素.
- 解决VED对公共卫生的影响,该疾病影响着全球相当一部分人口.
主要方法:
- 文献综述和对维生素E和心血管疾病现有研究的综合.
- 对有关VED流行率和CVD死亡率的人口数据的分析.
- 对维生素E补充干预研究结果的评估.
主要成果:
- 在全球范围内,VED的患病率差异很大 (0.6%~55.5%),心血管疾病死亡率较高的地区的患病率更高.
- 使用alpha-tocopherol补充剂的干预研究并未始终证明心脏保护作用.
- 维生素E的保护作用可能涉及其所有来自食物的异构体,而不仅仅是α-托哥菲罗尔.
结论:
- 由于CVD和VED的发病率很高,因此需要更深入地了解维生素E在心血管健康中的作用.
- 研究维生素E及其代谢物的机制对于了解VED和CVD之间的联系至关重要.
- 建议采取公共卫生倡议,促进从天然食物来源和健康脂肪中摄取维生素E.
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