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An assessment of Dietary Intake Associated with the Coronary Heart Disease among Adults in Yerevan, Armenia
Ezatollah Fazeli Moghadam 1 *, Artashes Tadevosyan 2 , Masood Kimiagar 3 , Maryam Chamari 4
1Lorestan University of Medial Sciences, Khoram Abad, Iran. PhD student, Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Public Health Department, Yerevan, Armenia
2 MD, PhD, DSc, Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi, Public Health Department, Yerevan, Armenia
3 PhD full Professor, Shahid Beheshti University of Medial Sciences, Nutrition Science Department
4MSc, Tehran University of Medial Sciences, Nutrition Science Department
Abstract: Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated the relationship between the dietary intake and coronary heart disease (CHD) in various countries. Extreme changes have occurred in lifestyles as well as dietary patterns in industrialized countries. Also, no study has been done to address the association between CHD and food consumption in these populations. This case-control study was conducted to assess the dietary intake in individuals with and without CHD during 2010 and 2011; we randomly selected 320 patients with CHD and 320 subjects without CHD (≥ 30 years old) from the hospitals, polyclinics and center of preventive cardiology in Yerevan. Dietary intakes with 135 food items over the previous 12 months were evaluated using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. We observed an inversely significant association between fruits, vegetables (not potatoes), whole grain, and plant food consumption and CHD. In a logistic regression, after adjusting for confounder risk factors, each 100 g increase in fruit or vegetables decreased 63% odds of CHD. The odds ratio for those with intake of sweet and dessert in the highest quartile was 2.64 (95% CI 1.65-4.21). 85% of cases and 81.3% of controls, consumed fish and seafood less than 200 g/wk (P>0.05), also, low intake of whole grain (below 100 g/d) was most common both in cases (95.9%) and controls (93.4%).This pioneering study indicates which fruit, vegetable intakes, whole grain and plant food independently associated with the CHD risk in the population under investigation.
[Ezatollah Fazeli Moghadam, Artashes Tadevosyan, Masood Kimiagar, Maryam Chamari. An assessment of Dietary Intake Associated with the Coronary Heart Disease among Adults in Yerevan, Armenia. Life Sci J 2012;9(1):865-870] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 126
Keywords: assessment; Dietary; Intake; Coronary; Heart; Disease; Adult
