Dietary Patterns in the Ageing European Population: an Interdisciplinary Approach to combat Overweight-Related Metabolic Diseases. The EURODIET project
Consortium
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Hospital Clínico Universitario in Valencia, INCLIVA, | Spain |
Department of Economics, University of Barcelona | Spain |
Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna- Dept. of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine; | Italy |
1. Overall project description
1.1 Summary
An epidemic of overweight/obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardio-metabolic diseases is emerging at
planetary level, and healthy nutrition represents a critical help to counteract this trend. Unfortunately,
simplistic guidelines failed totally or partially, mainly because of THE COMPLEXITY AND HETEROGENEITY
OF NUTRITION/DIETARY HABITS IN HUMANS. EURODIET will tackle such complexity and the
urgent/unmet need of integrated studies by investigating how the COMBINATION of variables usually
analysed separately (ethnicity/geography, sex/gender, socio-economic status/education, previous dietary
habits, physical activity and smoking) affects adoption of healthy dietary habits and conventional as well as
novel metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in a large number of subjects spanning from 50 to 79 years of
age. This approach is feasible being EURODIET a multidisciplinary consortium having access to existing
datasets/biological samples of large European projects SHARE and NU-AGE and will: i) integrate existing
cohorts and collect new ad hoc data (e.g. omics-based biomarker identification) on these samples; ii) based
on existing data collected at two time points within the NU-AGE project, perform a follow-up study on dietary
habits, health status and incident diseases on a subsample of subjects, iii) perform two proof-of-concept
randomized controlled trials to assess the effects of adherence to a healthy a whole-diet approach in adults
with and without metabolic disease; iv) determine facilitators and barriers for adherence to healthy dietary
patterns; v) bridge the gap between academic research, public health practice and the food production
industry; vi) provide state-of-the-art training to young scientists focusing on the importance of
addressing/combining biological and non-biological variables in dietary interventions and metabolic diseases.
1.2 Highlights
4. Impact
4.1 List of publications
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4.2 Presentation of the project
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4.3 List of submitted patents and other outputs
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