Nutritional status and dietary pattern of hypertensive subjects Kumari Nandana1,*, Raghuvanshi Rita Singh2 1Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bokaro – 829 121, Jharkhand, India 2College of Home Science, Department of Food and Nutrition, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar – 263 145, Uttarakhand, India *E-mail: nandanakumari.1973@gmail.com and deanhsc1@gmail.com
Online published on 30 November, 2019. Abstract Hypertension is a serious health problem worldwide and reported as the fourth contributor to premature death in developed and seventh in developing countries including India. Keeping high prevalence of hypertension in population, a research was conducted to study the nutritional status and dietary pattern of the hypertensive subjects in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand State. A pre-structured survey schedule was developed for data collection on randomly selected 45 hypertensive subjects. It was observed that 60 per cent subjects had nuclear and 62 per cent subjects had small size family, 75 per cent subjects were Hindu, 53 per cent were graduates, 57 per cent had government job and 40 per cent subjects were vegetarian by food habits. On the basis of BMI grades, it was found that total 31 per cent male subjects and 40 per cent female subjects were either overweight or obese. On the basis of waist circumference and waist to hip ratio 57 per cent and 100 per cent of female hypertensive subjects and in 42 per cent and 75 per cent of male hypertensive subjects were categorized hypertensive due to abdominal obesity. It was revealed by analysing their foods intake that average intake of pulses, roots and tubers, other vegetables, fruits, milk and milk products, fat intake were much higher than their RDA value, responsible for high prevalence of hypertension. Top Keywords Hypertension, nutritional status, nutritional anthropometry, diet survey, dietary pattern. Top |