Flavonoids: An Answer to Chronic Diseases

Year : 2024 | Volume : 02 | Issue : 01 | Page : 31 37
    By

    Mousumi Karmakar,

  • Bandita Datta,

  1. M.Sc. Graduate, Department of Dietetics and Applied Nutrition, Amity Institute of Applied Science, Amity University, Kolkata, India
  2. Assistant Professor II, Department of Chemistry, Amity Institute of Applied Science, Amity University, Kolkata, India

Abstract

It has been shown that inflammation is closely associated with the onset or exacerbation of quite a few non-communicable human diseases. Several chronic diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular dysfunction and central nervous system damage are also developed following tissue injury produced by the high fragments of low-grade inflammation surrounding a compromised tissue or organ due to its acquired genomic changes. Current therapies for many of these diseases are associated with undesirable, and at times more severe side effects than the actual condition leaving little choice but to seek cheaper options that would be less toxic; this has thus prompted a need for safe treatments. Flavonoids and their compounds have been used in traditional medicine wrongly before ethnomedicines, also for a wide variety of human diseases with use continuing to this day. The aim of this review is to showcase the role of flavonoids which help in reducing inflammation in several chronic illnesses, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and neuroinflammation.

Keywords: Cancer, chronic disease, diabetes, flavonoids, inflammation

[This article belongs to International Journal of Advance in Molecular Engineering ]

How to cite this article:
Mousumi Karmakar, Bandita Datta. Flavonoids: An Answer to Chronic Diseases. International Journal of Advance in Molecular Engineering. 2024; 02(01):31-37.
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Regular Issue Subscription Review Article
Volume 02
Issue 01
Received 25/08/2024
Accepted 21/09/2024
Published 28/10/2024
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