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Tier 4 — Narrative / commentaryPeer-reviewed

Lipidomics: applications in nutrition and metabolism

Sisson, P.R. & Welti, R.

2019

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Summary

Published in Trends in Food Science & Technology, this review article by Sisson and Welti examines the emerging field of lipidomics and its relevance to nutrition research and metabolic science. The paper likely outlines the principal analytical approaches — including mass spectrometry-based platforms — used to characterise complex lipid profiles in foods and biological matrices. It probably discusses how lipidomic data can illuminate the relationships between dietary fat intake, lipid metabolism, and health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.

UK applicability

Whilst the review is likely international in scope, its methodological and conceptual contributions are directly applicable to UK nutritional research, dietary assessment, and the development of food-based biomarkers relevant to UK public health priorities.

Key measures

Lipid species profiles; fatty acid compositions; lipidomic biomarkers; metabolic pathway indicators

Outcomes reported

The paper likely reviews how lipidomic profiling techniques are applied to understand dietary lipid composition, lipid metabolism, and their relationships to metabolic health outcomes. It probably covers analytical platforms, biomarker discovery, and the use of lipidomics in nutritional intervention studies.

Theme
Nutrition & health
Subject
Nutritional biochemistry & metabolomics
Study type
Narrative Review
Study design
Narrative review
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
Status
Published
Geography
International
System type
Human clinical
Catalogue ID
XL0261

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