ĐẶC ĐIỂM DINH DƯỠNG VÀ MỘT SỐ YẾU TỐ LIÊN QUAN CỦA NGƯỜI BỆNH TĂNG HUYẾT ÁP ĐIỀU TRỊ TẠI TRUNG TÂM Y TẾ THÀNH PHỐ VĨNH YÊN

Abstract

Objective: Description of nutritional characteristics and some related factors of hypertensive patients treated as outpatients at Vinh Yen City Medical Center, Vinh Phuc province in 2023-2024. Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 251 hypertensive patients being treated as outpatients at Vinh Yen City Medical Center, Vinh Phuc province. Results: The study had a total of 251 subjects, men had a height of 162.6 ± 3.5 cm and women were 152.2 ± 3.3 cm. When considering both sexes, the average height was 157.3 ± 6.2 cm. The average weight for men was 63.0 ± 5.1 kg, heavier than women (55.6 ± 6.3 kg). The research results showed that BMI of both sexes was almost equal with men being 23.8 ± 1.4 kg/m2 and women being 23.9 ± 2.4 kg/m2. Women's waist circumference was 76.8 ± 7.4 cm, lower than men's 82.7 ± 2.9 cm. Rice was the food favored by the research subjects with the highest rate of regular use of up to 99.2%. Sweets were still favored and used mainly 1-3 times/week with a rate of 34.9%, a few used 3-4 times/week at 0.8%. Fat, butter, vegetable oil, vegetable oil was used most frequently with 56.4% using 3-4 times/week, while butter was never used by 79.6%. The study did not find any statistically significant relationship between alcohol abuse, smoking and overweight and obesity in the study subjects. Conclusion: The study subjects still had many bad nutritional habits such as consuming a lot of fatty foods, drinking alcohol, smoking and drinking soft drinks.