Nutritional Considerations for Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Narrative Review

Nutrients. 2019 May 29;11(6):1219. doi: 10.3390/nu11061219.

Abstract

Those with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) require important considerations with respect to food and nutrition, owing to advanced age, poor diet behaviours and immobility associated with the disease process and co-morbid state. These considerations, coupled with the economic effectiveness of medical nutrition therapy, mandate that dietetic care plays a vital role in the management of PAD. Despite this, optimising dietetic care in PAD remains poorly understood. This narrative review considers the role of medical nutrition therapy in every stage of the PAD process, ranging from the onset and initiation of disease to well established and advanced disease. In each case, the potential benefits of traditional and novel medical nutrition therapy are discussed.

Keywords: atherosclerosis; malnutrition; peripheral arterial disease.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Diet, Healthy*
  • Humans
  • Malnutrition / diagnosis
  • Malnutrition / epidemiology
  • Malnutrition / physiopathology
  • Malnutrition / therapy*
  • Nutrition Therapy / methods*
  • Nutritional Status
  • Nutritive Value
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease / diagnosis
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease / epidemiology
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease / physiopathology
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease / therapy*
  • Protective Factors
  • Recommended Dietary Allowances
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Reduction Behavior*
  • Treatment Outcome