[The importance of water consumption in health and disease prevention: the current situation]
Salas Salvadó J, Maraver Eizaguirre F, Rodríguez-Mañas L, Saenz de Pipaón M, Vitoria Miñana I, Moreno Aznar L
Nutricion hospitalaria · 8 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cohort study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- University or hospital
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2020-01-01 · Nutr Hosp · vol. 37 · issue 5 · pp. 1072–1086
- Publisher
- Arán Ediciones
- Cited
- 49 citations · more than 92% of similar papers · 2.9× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 36 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC-SA
- Research areas
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses · Dietary Effects on Health · Diet and metabolism studies
- Keywords
- Environmental health, Body water, Medicine, Fluid intake, Water quality, Water intake, Toxicology, Intensive care medicine, Body weight, Biology, Ecology, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, disease, water, diet, nutrition surveys, prospective studies, cross-sectional studies, drinking, adolescent, adult, aged, aged, 80 and over, middle aged, child, child, preschool, infant, infant, newborn, health, spain, female, male, guidelines as topic, young adult, water quality
6 authors
From ES
- Luis Moreno AznarUniversidad de Zaragoza; Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Jordi Salas‐SalvadóUniversidad Complutense de Madrid; Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Francisco Maraver EizaguirreUniversidad Complutense de Madrid; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable
- Leocadio Rodríguez‐MañasHospital Universitario La Paz; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Miguel Saenz de PipaónHospital Universitario La Paz; Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Isidro Vitoria MiñanaUniversidad de Zaragoza; Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe
Abstract
Introduction
Water is an essential nutrient for life and the most abundant component in the human body. However, its dietary recommendations or clinical management guidelines do not receive as much attention as they deserve. In addition, there are some obstacles to establishing optimal values, both for the amount of water the body must contain and for water ingestion. Water intake and elimination depend on unsteady factors that are difficult to measure and, at the same time, compensated by the body's ability to regulate homeostasis. Since scientific evidence is lacking for establishing recommendations, "adequate intakes" (to maintain an adequate hydration state) have been estimated using data on water intake from groups of healthy people. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) also considers desirable the use of urine osmolarity to estimate the adequacy of water intake in adults. Clinical studies have generally shown the benefits of adequate hydration and the damage caused by water imbalance, whether quantitative (dehydration and overhydration) or qualitative (extracellular and intracellular water). Unfortunately, these studies are few and often have poor cross-sectional, case-control, or prospective designs, and use small samples or indirect methods to assess hydration status. This article presents up-to-date information on subjects such as: 1) compliance with water consumption recommendations and suggestions for improvement; 2) techniques available to measure hydration status and their clinical applications; 3) effects of hydration/dehydration on physical or cognitive activities and chronic diseases; and 4) existing Spanish regulations on the quality and salubrity of water.
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