{"title":"Diet modifications to control hypertension: the multifactorial approach.","authors":"Cheryl L Rock","doi":"10.1159/000080661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000080661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18989,"journal":{"name":"Nestle Nutrition workshop series. Clinical & performance programme","volume":"9 ","pages":"155-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000080661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24676327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fluid and electrolytes in the clinical setting.","authors":"Dileep N Lobo","doi":"10.1159/000080665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000080665","url":null,"abstract":"The understanding of fluid and electrolyte balance in the clinical setting is often poor and prescribing is usually left to the most junior member of the team [1, 2]. Fluid prescriptions, especially in the perioperative period, can be very variable, with patients sometimes receiving in excess of 5 liters water and 500 mmol sodium/day [1, 3]. The 1999 UK National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths reported that 20% of the patients sampled had either poor documentation of fluid balance or had unrecognized or untreated fluid imbalance [4], leading to increased postoperative morbidity and mortality [4]. In this review some of the pathophysiological aspects of fluid balance will be discussed and some recent and a few classic studies described, particularly in the context of nutritional and metabolic care.","PeriodicalId":18989,"journal":{"name":"Nestle Nutrition workshop series. Clinical & performance programme","volume":"9 ","pages":"187-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000080665","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24677924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insulin sensitivity: normal and abnormal.","authors":"A Basu","doi":"10.1159/000080622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000080622","url":null,"abstract":"Insulin is the major anabolic hormone in the human body. Secreted by the cells of the pancreatic islets, typically in response to a meal, it is fundamental in maintaining normal glucose homeostasis. Its main effect on glucose metabolism is to suppress hepatic glucose production and to stimulate whole body glucose uptake in insulin sensitive tissues, i.e., muscle, liver and fat. Abnormal/impaired insulin sensitivity or ‘insulin resistance’ therefore signifies a state of reduced peripheral and hepatic responsiveness to the biological actions of insulin. In addition insulin has multiple and vital effects on protein (suppresses proteolysis) and fat (suppresses lipolysis) metabolism. Other recently appreciated effects include those on cellular growth, prevention of apoptosis, stimulation of the sodium-potassium pump and on vascular endothelial function.","PeriodicalId":18989,"journal":{"name":"Nestle Nutrition workshop series. Clinical & performance programme","volume":"9 ","pages":"37-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000080622","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24676319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water and sodium balance: a nutritional goal.","authors":"Antonio Sitges-Serra","doi":"10.1159/000080666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000080666","url":null,"abstract":"Back in the 5th century BC, Empedocles suggested that the biosphere was composed of four elements: earth, wind, fire and water. These four components of life are currently known under names different from those dear to the early philosophers. ‘Earth’ contains the nutritional substrates including vitamins and trace elements. ‘Wind’ refers to the respiratory gases supporting cell life or produced as byproducts of metabolic processes occurring within the cell. ‘Fire’ is the energy resulting from substrate oxidation. ‘Water’ is the only element that is still called by its original name owing to it being the original ‘milieu’ in which life was made possible. In this chapter we will review some basic aspects of water and electrolyte metabolism emphasizing those that bear a relation to major areas of clinical nutrition such as body composition, undernutrition, nutrition assessment and refeeding.","PeriodicalId":18989,"journal":{"name":"Nestle Nutrition workshop series. Clinical & performance programme","volume":"9 ","pages":"205-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000080666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24677925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}