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Chronic Disease Prevention

Chronic disease prevention is the set of strategies aimed at reducing the incidence, progression and burden of long-term non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain cancers. It operates at several levels, from primary prevention that lowers risk before disease dev…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 120× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Chronic disease prevention is the set of strategies aimed at reducing the incidence, progression and burden of long-term non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain cancers. It operates at several levels, from primary prevention that lowers risk before disease develops, through early detection, to management that limits complications, and it places strong emphasis on modifiable behavioural and environmental factors. Nutrition is central to this effort, since diet quality, body weight and metabolic health are powerful determinants of chronic-disease risk. The articles in this collection examine the dietary and lifestyle dimensions of prevention. Several link plant-based and culturally tailored eating patterns to reduced cardiometabolic risk, including lower chronic-disease risk factors among vegetarian populations and the effectiveness of tailored nutrition and lifestyle intervention in migrant communities. Mechanistic and emerging themes appear in work on epigenetics and nutrition, functional and fermented foods and their anti-inflammatory and biomarker effects, oxidative telomere attrition and biological ageing, and dietary approaches to obesity reversal and brain health. The role of diet in cancer prevention is addressed through analysis of colorectal cancer and dietary intervention. Together these contributions present chronic disease prevention as a field in which nutrition, lifestyle modification and the underlying biological pathways they influence combine to lower long-term disease risk and support sustained health and wellbeing.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2015

Epigenetics and Nutrition

Lundstrom KennethCorresponding author
PanTherapeuitcs, Rue des Remparts 4, CH1095 Lutry, Switzerland
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-14-603
2019

Functional Food

Butnariu MonicaCorresponding author
Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania” from Timisoara, Timis, Romania
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 95 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-19-2615

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 120 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Chronic Disease Prevention, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Kadri Koppel · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Luigia Pazzagli · Italy

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