To correlate the nutrient intake with socioeconomic characteristics among the male and female cardiac patients

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease today is one of the most leading cause of mortality in both developed and developing countries. The incidence of hypertension, heart attack and atherosclerosis has increased multi-fold. Today, life is a race in which each person tries to compete with other in terms of wealth, status, success, reputation and several such ideals through fair and unfair means. This accompanying tension and worries, the craving for the cigarette, this compelling peg, the leisurely or hectic made of travel and overweight, all drag the person towards a disease. The present study was conducted to know the prevalence of CVD between male and females and major risk factor contributing to high prevalence. Multistage stratified systematic sampling techniques were used for selecting 100 samples and an interview schedule was evolved to collect the information regarding socioeconomic profile, dietary pattern and specific information regarding this disease. In this study we found the consumption of high fat diet was revealed as the major contribution by cause of CHD. The mean BMI significant and positively correlated with Vitamin C among the male CHD patients whereas in significant and positively correlated with Vitamin C among female CHD patients. The dietary intake between male and female were highly significant.