Bioactive food as dietary interventions for cardiovascular disease / edited by Ronald Ross Watson and Victor R. Preedy.

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease investigates the role of foods, herbs and novel extracts in moderating the pathology leading to cardiovascular disease. It reviews existing literature, and presents new hypotheses and conclusions on the effects of different bioactive components of the diet. Addresses the most positive results from dietary interventions using bioactive foods to impact cardiovascular diseaseDocuments foods that can affect metabolic syndrome and other related conditions. Convenient, efficient and effective source that allows readers to identify potential uses of compounds - or indicate those compounds whose use may be of little or no health benefit. Associated information can be used to understand other diseases that share common etiological pathways.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Omega-3 fatty acids in prevention of cardiovascular disease in humans: intervention trials, healthy heart concept, future developments -- Herbal supplements or herbs in heart disease: history, herbal foods, coronary heart disease -- Plant statins and heart failure -- Bioactive nutrients and cardiovascular disease -- Vitamins and myocardial infarction in diabetics -- Cardioprotective nutrients -- Fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of noncommunicable diseases -- Diet and homocysteinemia: a role in cardiovascular disease? -- Phytosterols and cardiovascular disease -- Taurine effects on arterial pressure control -- Fish consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease -- part 1 -- Fish consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease -- part 2 -- Quercetin and its metabolites in heart health -- Vitamin K, coronary calcification and risk of cardiovascular disease -- A review of the antioxidant actions of three herbal medicines (Crataegus monogyna, Ginkgo biloba, and Aesculus hippocastanum) on the treatment of cardiovascular diseases -- Grape polyphenols in heart health promotion -- Cacao for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases -- Phytoestrogens and the role in cardiovascular health: to consume or not to consume? -- Probiotic species on cardiovascular disease: the use of probiotics to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors -- Dairy foods and cardiovascular diseases -- Red palm oil carotenoids -- Bioactive compounds in red palm oil can modulate mechanisms of actions in in vitro anoxic perfused rat hearts -- The effect of l-carnitine supplement and its derivatives on cardiovascular disease -- Dietary blueberry supplementation as a means of lowering high blood pressure -- Vitamin D and cardiometabolic risks -- Phytosterols and micronutrients for heart health -- Protection by plant flavonoids against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury -- Bioactive compounds in heart disease -- Omega-3 fatty acids in prevention of cardiovascular disease in humans: chemistry, dyslipidemia -- Herbal supplements or herbs in heart disease: herbiceutical formulation, clinical trials, futuristic developments -- Fish proteins in coronary artery disease prevention: amino acid-fatty acid concept -- Herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of heart diseases -- Protective effect of garlic (Allium sativum L.) Against atherosclerosis -- Potential of soy phytochemicals in cardiomyocyte regeneration and risk reduction of coronary heart disease -- Fish oil fatty acids and vascular reactivity -- Counteracting the inflammatory response in the atherosclerosis bioactive products -- Cardioprotective efficacy of alternative and complementary therapeutics -- Effect of Terminalia arjuna on cardiac hypertrophy -- Plant sterols and artery disease -- Antiatherogenic effects of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe): scientific observations and ethnomedicinal validation.

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