Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2018; 110(5): 438-439
Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Framingham Risk Score in Vegetarian and Omnivorous Apparently Healthy Men
DOI: 10.5935/abc.20180083
This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Framingham Risk Score in Apparently Healthy Vegetarian and Omnivorous Men".
The Life Style Heart Trial was a milestone; published in 1990, the study showed that a healthy lifestyle associated with a vegetarian diet can promote the regression of coronary lesions, even in patients not using lipid-lowering drugs.
There is a large epidemic of cardiovascular disease today. Sedentary lifestyle, obesity, diabetes and dyslipidemia are triggers of mechanisms related to cardiovascular diseases, such as changes in the gut microbiota, increase in inflammatory markers and prothrombotic factors, and impaired immune response.
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