Nutrition and Life Style of Selected Mild Hypercholesterolemic Patients

Abstract

A community based study in Kerala funded by World Health Organization reported hypercholesterolemia in 54.1 percent.The present study aimed to investigate the nutritional profile and life style behaviour of selected mild hypercholesterolemia adults.Two hundred adults irrespective of sex were randomly selected from Kottayam district kerala.Information on economic background,anthropometric mesurements, diet history, life style habit and medical history of the subjects were collected using an interview schedule. All the subjects were screened for total cholestrol to select mild hypercholestrolemic patients. Data collected were consoildated and tabulated. Among the two hundred subjects 20 subjectas were found to be mild hypercholestrolemic. All the selected subjects were doing moderate workonly. Twelve of the selected subjects were overweight followed by eight normal. Moderate working habit, lack of physical activity and faulty food habit were found to be the main reason for hypercholestrolemic. Supplementation and nutrition education are the strategies to correct mild hypercholestrolemic.