Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2018_207350
Obesity-related low-grade chronic inflammation: implementation of the dietary inflammatory index in clinical practice is the milestone?
Andrej Belančić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-6600
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
Gordana Kenđel Jovanović
; Teaching Institute of Public Health Primorsko-Goranska County, Rijeka, Croatia
Sanja Klobučar Majanović
orcid.org/0000-0002-0287-4735
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Diet is a main modifiable determinant involved in the development of obesity-related visceral adipose tissue low-grade chronic inflammation (LGCI). Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory properties of majority of whole foods and dietary constituents have been determined and presented as dietary inflammatory index (DII). The DII is a scoring algorithm based on extensive review of literature linking 45 food parameters with six biomarkers of inflammation. Overall DII score can take on values ranging from 7.98 (maximal pro-inflammatory dietary pattern) to -8.87 (maximal anti-inflammatory dietary pattern). Integrative anti-inflammatory approach to nutrition seems to be the milestone for tackling overweight/obesity, LGCI, and inflammation-related chronic diseases.
Keywords
Diet; Inflammation; Nutrition assessment; Obesity
Hrčak ID:
207350
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2018.
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