Dietary fibre, ischaemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus.

Fibre-based functional meat products

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between a diet containing an excess of energy-dense food rich in fats and sugar and the emergence of a range of chronic diseases, including colon cancer, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and several other disorders [12, 49, 9, 77, 13, 14]. As the presence of fibre in food produces a diminution in their caloric content, thus, an increase i...

Ischaemic heart disease in Turkish migrants with type 2 diabetes mellitus in The Netherlands: wait for the next generation?

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of ischaemic heart disease in Turkish and Surinam-Asian migrants with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Netherlands as compared with Europeans. METHODS In a consecutive case-control study, 59 Turkish and 62 Surinam-Asian patients were compared with 185 Europeans referred to a diabetes clinic for treatment of type 2 diabetes in the period 1992 to 1998. Main outc...

Dietary intake and practices in the Hong Kong

Objectives—To examine dietary intake and practices of the adult Hong Kong Chinese population to provide a basis for future public health recommendations with regard to prevention of certain chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and osteoporosis. Participants—Age and sex stratified random sample of the Hong Kong Chinese population aged 25 to 74 years (500 men, 510 women)...

Nonischaemic heart failure and diabetes mellitus.

Knowledge about the impact of diabetes mellitus on prognosis in patients with heart failure continues to grow. As reported in this issue, de Groote et al.1 used coronary angiography to stratify diabetics with systolic heart failure into ischaemic and nonischaemic aetiologies. The hypothesis tested was that diabetic status may be used as a prognostic indicator in heart failure patients. The stud...

Non-insulin dependent diabetes and ischaemic heart disease.