Aims & Scope
The Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism publishes original scientific papers on metabolism, including diabesity and eating disorders; nutrition (epidemiological, basic, clinical and artificial); dietary and nutritional practices and management and their impact on health from prevention to treatment. The journal hosts the proceedings of relevant congresses and presents shorter notices focused on the original character of the Mediterranean nutritional civilization. In addition, this journal is intended as a platform for scientific debate and knowledge-sharing among students and clinical practitioners, and between them and the broader scientific community, and finally as a tool for promoting and enhancing scientific cooperation.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Maurizio Battino, PhD, DSc, MD (Hon) (Nutritional Biochemistry) Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche
Sez. Biochimica Facoltà di Medicina
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Ancona, Italy
Email: m.a.battino@univpm.it
Associate Editors
Giuseppe Carruba, MD PhD. (Cancer and Nutrition)
Division of Internationalization and Health Research (SIRS)
ARNAS Civico Hospital
Palermo, Italy
Rachele De Giuseppe, PhD. (Public Health Nutrition)
Laboratory of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
T. Forbes, PhD. (Bioactive Compounds, Obesity and Cancer)
Department of Physiology, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology
José Mataix Verdú, Center for Biomedical Research
University of Granada, Armilla, Spain
Francesca Giampieri, PhD. (Research Group on Foods, Nutritional Biochemistry and Health)
Universidad Europea del Atlántico
Isabel Torres, Santander, Spain (Highly Cited Researcher)
Justyna Godos, PhD. (Human Nutrition/Clinical Nutrition)
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania
Catantia, Italy (Highly Cited Researcher)
Giuseppe Grosso, MD, PhD. (Nutrition & Dietetics)
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences,
University of Catania, Catania, Italy (Highly Cited Researcher)
E. Espinosa, MD, PhD. (Internal Medicine)
Faculty of Medicine
Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Dr. Farheen Badrealam Khan,
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, PO Box 127788, United Arab Emirates
Email: farheen.khan@ku.ac.ae
Agnieszka Micek, MD (Statistics & Epidemiology)
Statistical Laboratory, Faculty of Health Sciences
Jagiellonian University Medical College
Kraków, Poland
Martina Petrolo, PhD. (Dietetics)
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Letizia Petroni (Obesity Studies)
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
Sara Tagliaferrii, MD, PhD. (Nutrition and Biostatistics)
Department of Medicine, University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Co-Editors
Enrico Bertoli, PhD. (Biochemistry)
Istituto di Biochimica, Marche Polytechnic University
Ancona, Italy
Carl Keen, MD. (Nutrition)
Department of Nutrition, University of California
Davis, CA, USA
Editorial Committee
Antonio Caretto, MD. (Clinical Nutrition & Diabetology)
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition, U.O. of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliera di Summa
Brindisi, Italy
Nicoletta Facchin, MD. (Clinical Nutrition & Diabetology)
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Service, Ospedale di Bolzano
Bolzano, Italy
Giuseppe Fatati, MD. (Clinical Nutrition & Diabetology)
Italian Association for Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
Diabetes, Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria Terni
Terni, Italy
Maria Antonia Fusco, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Division of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition, Ospedale S. Camillo-Forlanini,
Rome, Italy
Maria Gabriella Gentile, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Service, Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda
Milan, Italy
Lucio Lucchin, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Dietetics and clinical nutrition service, Ospedale S. Maurizio,
Bolzano, Italy
F. Muratori, MD. (Endocrinology & Pharmacology)
Struttura Complessa di Endocrinologia, Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda,
Milan, Italy
Mario Parillo, MD. (Clinical Nutrition & Diabetology)
UOSD Diabetologia, Malattie del Metabolismo e Nutrizione Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Sebastiano
Caserta, Italy
M. Petrelli, MD. (Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases)
SOD Dietetica e Nutrizione Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria "Ospedali Riuniti" di Ancona,
Ancona, Italy
Andrea Pezzana, MD. (Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics)
Dietetica e Nutrizione Clinica, Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista,
Turin, Italy
G. Pipicelli, MD. (Diabetology & Dietetics)
U.O.C. di Diabetologia e Dietologia Territoriale, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Catanzaro,
Catanzaro, Italy
Giuseppe Rovera, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Dietologia Clinica, Ospedale San Luca, Turin, Italy and Scuola di Specialità, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Pavia, Italy
Massimo Vincenzi, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
San Pier Damiano Hospital
Faenza, Italy
Editorial Board
Adriana Albini, MD. (Oncology)
Ricerca Oncologica, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, IRRCS Multimedica,
Milan, Italy
Jose Miguel Alvarez-Suárez, PhD. (Nutrtional Biochemistry)
Grupo de Biotecnología Aplicada a Biomedicina (BIOMED), Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabi
M. Arc, MD. (Internal Medicine)
Dip. di Clinica e Terapia Medica, Università di Roma La Sapienza,
Rome, Italy
Josep Maria Argilés, MD. (Oncology)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Atanas G. Atanasov, PhD. (Biotechnology)
Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Garbatka, Poland
Rekia Belahsen, PhD. (Nutrition)
Training and Research Unit on Nutrition and Food Sciences, Chouaib Doukkali University, School of Sciences
El Jadida, Morocco
Gianni Biolo, MD. (Internal Medicine)
Clinica Medica, Ospedale di Cattinara
Trieste, Italy
György Bodoky, MD. (Oncology)
Department of Oncology, St. Laszlo Hospital
Budapest, Hungary
Mahmoud Bozo, MD. (Pediatric Gastroenterology)
Syrian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Ministry of Health
Damascus, Syria
Luca Busetto, MD. (Clinical Medicine)
Clinica Medica, Policlinico Universitario
Padua, Italy
Esra Çapanoğlu Güven, PhD. (Food Technology)
Food Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
Lorenza Caregaro, MD. (Nutrition)
Scuola di Specializzazione in Scienza dell’Alimentazione, Università degli Studi di Padova
Padua, Italy
Marta Cascante, MD. (Biochemistry)
Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Gavino Casu, MD. (Cardiology)
Head of cardiology department, San Francesco Hospital
Nuoro, Italy
Maria Gabriella Ceravolo, MD. (Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine)
Clinica di Neuroriabilitazione, Marche Polytechnic University, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona
Ancona, Italy
Benvenuto Cestaro, MD. (Clinical Medicine)
Dipartimento Scienze Precliniche "Lita Vialba", Facoltà di Medicina, Università di Milano
Milan, Italy
Carlo Chiarla, MD. (Physiology)
CNR – I.A.S.I. – Fisiopatologia dello Shock, Policlinico Agostino Gemelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Rome, Italy
Stefano Coaccioli, MD. (Internal Medicine)
UNIPG, Medicina Interna, Università di Perugia
Perugia, Italy
Silvio De Flora, MD. (Clinical Medicine)
Department of Health Sciences, Genoa University
Genoa, Italy
Patricia de Gortari Gallardo, MD. (Nutrition & Dietetics)
Neurobiología, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría
Pueblo de San Pable Tepetlapa, Mexico
Giovanni De Pergola, MD. (Internal Medicine)
Sez. di Medicina Interna, Endocrinologia e Malattie Metaboliche, Università degli Studi di Bari
Bari, Italy
Dragan M. Djuric, PhD. (Physiology)
Institute of Medical Physiology “Richard Burian”, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
Asim K. Duttaroy, MD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Tamara Yulliett Forbes-Hernandez, PhD. (Food Technology)
Nutrition and Food Science Group, Dept. of Analytical and Food Chemistry, CITACA, CACTI, University of Vigo
Vigo, Spain
Antonio Vittorino Gaddi, MD. (Geriatry)
Eurogenlab Clinical Lab
Bologna, Italy
Massimiliano Gasparrini, PhD. (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences,
Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
M. Eric Gershwin, PhD. (Rheumatology)
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Barry Halliwell, PhD. (Biochemistry)
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
Nahla Hwalla, PhD. (Food Technology)
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut,
Beirut, Lebanon
Vladimir Jakovljevic, PhD. (Physiology)
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac
Kragujevac, Serbia
Alessandro Laviano, MD. (Clinical Medicine)
Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Università "La Sapienza"
Rome, Italy
E. R. López, PhD. (Public Health Nutrition)
Facultad de Salud Pública y Nutrición, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
Henry C. Lukaski, PhD. (Nutrition)
USDA, ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center,
Grand Forks, ND, USA
A. Martinez, MD. (Public Health Nutrition)
Dipartimento Fisiologia y Nutricion, Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
Luca Mazzoni, PhD. (Food Technology)
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University
Ancona, Italy
Silvio Monfardini, MD. (Oncology)
Oncologia Medica, Azienda Ospedaliera e Università di Padova
Padua, Italy
Beraat Özçelik, PhD. (Food Technology)
Food Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University,
Istanbul, Turkey
Maria Letizia Petroni, MD. (Nutrition)
Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Nutrizionali, IRCCS Istituto Auxologixo Italiano
Piancavallo, Italy
Geila Rozen, PhD. (Clinical Nutrition)
Clinical Nutrition Department, Rambam Hospital,
Haifa, Israel
Kazim Sahin, PhD. (Nutrition)
Department of Nutrition, Veterinary Faculty, Firat University
Elazig, Turkey
Samim Saner, PhD. (Food Technology)
Turkish Food Safety Association
Istanbul, Turkey
Luca Scalfi, PhD. (Nutrition)
Dipartimento di Scienza degli Alimenti, Università di Napoli
Naples, Italy
Stéphane Schneider, PhD. (Clinical Medicine)
USNGI - 3B, Gut Microbiota for Health, Hopital de l'Archet
Nice, France
Ram Badan Singh, PhD. (Nutrition)
Department of Science and Technology, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
New Delhi, India
Yehuda Shoenfeld, PhD. (Immunology)
Department of Medicine "B" and Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Hashomer, Israel
Thomas Szekeres, PhD. (Clinical Biochemistry)
Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, General Hospital of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Antonia Trichopoulou, MD. (Public Health Nutrition)
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Alfonso Varela-López, PhD. (Nutrition)
Biomedical Research Center, University of Granada,
Granada, Spain
Francesco Visioli, MD. (Physiology)
Laboratory of Functional Foods, IMDEA-Food
Madrid, Spain
Sevinç Yucecan, PhD. (Food Technology)
Yakin Dogu Bulvari, Near East University Turkey
Nicosia, Cyprus
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We are delighted to announce that Maurizio Battino, Editor-in-Chief of Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, has been recognized for the seventh consecutive year as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.
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