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Association of dietary intake and eating habit with the risk of pre diabetes in postmenopausal women | ||
| IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE | ||
| Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 173-178 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hadeel Fadhil Farhood; Ruaa Adil Abbas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Menopause is an inevitable and unavoidable event represented an important stage in women life. Poor quality and unhealthy diet, at this stage of life, may carry significant risk for different comorbidities like pre diabetes or type 2 diabetes. Objectives: To assess the nutritional status, eating habit and dietary intake in postmenopausal women in Babylon and assess the distribution of pre diabetes in postmenopausal women and detect the association between nutritional health and prediabetes . Material and Methods: Across-sectional study was conducted at two major hospital in Iraq, Babylon, from the 1st of March to the 30th of May 2015, included 105 postmenopausal women all were interviewed and their socio-demographic and personal data were collected. The nutritional health was assessed according to Nutritional Health scale. Food pyramid in postmenopausal women were assessed, anthropometric measurements were also taken and laboratory testing for hemoglobin A1C and fasting blood glucose were performed for all participant. Results: According to the Nutritional Health Scale 15 (14.2%) post-menopausal women had good nutrition and 90 (85.8%) had poor nutrition. There were significant associations of Nutritional health by residence and occupational status, family history of DM, sleeping time and appetite, (p ≤ 0.05), Majority of participant women had inadequate intake of whole grain, vegetables, fruit, milk and meat, (61.9%) of post-menopausal women were obese and (42.9%) of participants had pre-diabetes and there were significant associations of nutritional risk level by hemoglobin A1c and fasting blood glucose, p value ≤ 0.05. Conclusions: Majority of the Post-menopausal women had poor nutritional health scores, proportion of obesity among the studied group was higher than the national records and reported risk of pre-diabetes, with inadequate intake of food items. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| prediabetes; postmenopause; Dietary intake | ||
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