Nutritional risk factors in the cardiovascular patients

ABSTRACT

With respect to the effective dietary factors on heart diseases [HDs], the present research aims to study the dietary risk factors of people with cardiovascular diseases. The demography and anthropometric information as well as the nutritional condition for 80 patients hospitalized in the Cardiovascular Ward of Zahedan Khatam al-Anbia [PBUH] Hospital were determined through dietary recall and indices of lipid profile. As per the findings of this study, for BMI, 26.2% of the patients were overweighed, 10.1% of patients had obesity, and 43.5% of the patients had abdominal obesity for waist to hip ratio. The mean of cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, and HDL were 198.2 +/- 52.8, 136.8 +/- 66.3, 139 +/- 35.4, and 40 +/- 10.2 mg/dl, respectively. Imbalance in the macronutrient intakes were observed in patients. Given the fact that the indices under study are inappropriate, the patients are those who are subject to cardiovascular diseases in a constant and chronic manner