Akram M. Altaher*; Abed El Kader Y. Elottol; Belal I. Alastal; Abed Almalek I. Alhobi and Mohamed I. Shihada
الملخص الانجليزي
Background: Hyperlipidemia increases the risk of many diseases including coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis. Nutritional knowledge may act as a deterrent against unhealthy nutrition trend which is strongly associated with hyperlipidemia.
Objective: To evaluate the dietary habits and their influence on serum lipid profile among university students.
Materials and Methods: This study was an analytical descriptive design started in June and finished in September 2018. A total of 200 students (100 males and 100 females), aged between 18-22 years were evaluated. Sociodemographic data and health-related data situation, lifestyle practices, and eating habits of the study population were reported by an interview questionnaire. The biochemical evaluation for total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and Triglycerides (TG) was carried out. Collected data and biochemical analysis were analyzed using SPSS version 20.
Results: Male students were more likely to be healthier eating habits compared to female students in terms of regular breakfast intake, regular lunch intake, and regular dinner intake. The majority of students (67.5%) eat two to three meals per day. Most students (60.0%) thought that eating meats, vegetables and other variety of foods are the key to point of balanced diet. As well as there was a gender difference among the study population according to eating fried food. On the other hand, the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia was significantly higher in male students than females and, the prevalence of elevated LDL was higher in female students than males.
Conclusions: Despite the students having some unhealthy eating habits, however, their eating habits were non significantly associated with a higher prevalence of the three hyperlipidemias.
تاريخ النشر
02/12/2019
الناشر
The first International Conference of Health Professions (ICHP-I) Israa University- Gaza
د. أكرم محمد هاشم الطاهر | Dr. Akram M. H. Altaher | 1411