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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(21):2215-2217; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi490
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Importance of nutrition in chronic heart failure patients

Michel de Lorgeril1,2,*, Patricia Salen1,2 and Pascal Defaye1,2

1Laboratoire Nutrition, Vieillissement et Maladies Cardiovasculaires (NVMCV), Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
2Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Grenoble, France

* Corresponding author: Laboratoire NVMCV, UFR de Médecine et Pharmacie, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, Grenoble, France. E-mail address: michel.delorgeril@ujf-grenoble.fr

This editorial refers to ‘The effect of micronutrient supplementation on quality-of-life and left ventricular function in elderly patients with chronic heart failure’{dagger} by K.K.A. Witte et al., on page 2238

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The incidence of chronic heart failure (CHF), the common end-result of most cardiac diseases, is increasing steadily in most countries.1 In recent years, most of the research efforts on CHF have focused on drug therapies and devices (implantable defibrillators and resynchronization), and little attention has been paid to non-pharmacological approaches, and particularly to nutrition. Only recently, it has been recognized that increased oxidative stress, for instance, may be involved in the pathogenesis of CHF.2 The intimate link between diet and oxidative stress is obvious, knowing that our body derives its main antioxidant defences from essential nutrients (meaning that they are necessarily obtained from foods).

Although it is generally considered that a diet high in sodium is harmful (and may result in acute decompensation of CHF through a volume overload mechanism), little is known about the other aspects of diet in CHF, in terms of both general nutrition and micronutrients, such . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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