An interesting insight into breakfast and cardiovascular disease

First, I'd like to thank you Nakajima et al. for discussing the very pertinent relation of skipping breakfast and atrial fibrillation [1]. Breakfast, which contains 20% of the daily energy intake is the very first meal of the day. We all are aware that unhealthy diet is very integral part of cardiometabolic perturbations leading to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Not only the nutritional quality but eating pattern also has a strong connection with CVD. Prolonged hypoglycemia leads to overactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) causing sympathetic activation validates its temporal association with AF and chronically elevated cortisol in habitual breakfast skippers, associated with cardiometabolic derangements like obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension [2].
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research