Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and protective effects of food intake: from hypothesis to evidence. | Available online http content 2 5 261 Commentary Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease asthma and protective effects of food intake from hypothesis to evidence Henriette A Smit Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology National Institute of Public Health and the Environment Bilthoven The Netherlands o 3 I Correspondence Henriette A Smit Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology National Institute of Public Health and the Environment PO Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands. Tel 31 30 2743830 fax 31 30 2744407 e-mail Received 23 April 2001 Revisions requested 17 May 2001 Revisions received 23 May 2001 Accepted 13 June 2001 Published 9 July 2001 Respir Res 2001 2 261-264 2001 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1465-9921 Online ISSN 1465-993X Abstract Evidence for a role of diet in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD has been accumulating rapidly over the past decade. Associations have been reported between the intake of fruit fish antioxidant vitamins fatty acids sodium or magnesium and indicators of asthma and COPD. Several issues need to be addressed before causality of these associations can be established. The role of diet in the development of disease and the induction time and reversibility of the effect needs further investigation. The role of smoking habits in the relation of diet and respiratory disease also needs to be elucidated. Nevertheless based on the available evidence dietary guidelines could be proposed for the primary and secondary prevention of asthma and COPD that are in line with existing dietary guidelines for the prevention of coronary heart disease and cancer. Keywords asthma chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diet epidemiology Introduction Changes in patterns of dietary consumption associated with development of a more affluent lifestyle may have contributed to the rise in asthma over the past few decades 1 2 . Plausible mechanisms have been proposed for the influence of dietary .
