Assessment of Nutritional Health Education on Dietary Condition and Serum Lipids Level of Hypertension Population in a Community Shanghai

ObjectiveTo assess the hypertension and nutritional health education on dietary condition and serum lipids level of hypertensives in a community.MethodsThe hypertension subjects in a community of Shanghai were randomly sampled as the intervention group and the control group.Dietary sur veys and blood test were carried out on hypertension subjects before and after nutritional health education.ResultsThe calorie intake from dietary fat exceeded 30% of total calorie intake;Calcium and retinal intake were inadequacy;the consumption of meat was over abundance,while the consumption of milk was insufficiency.The average intake of salt exceeded 6g/d;Calorie intake was lowest in breakfast and highestin supper;The level of serum lipids for patients was higher than that of the normal up limit.The nutritional health education was carried out in intervention subjects for one year.The intervention results showed:the fatintake of intervention population was reduced, the calorie intake from dietary fat was less than 30% of total calorie intake;calcium and retinal intake increased;milk and fruit consumption increased greatly;the level of serum TC and LDL decreased significantly.ConclusionThe nutritional health education abouthypertension in community was effective and could help hyper tensives to improve their nutritional knowledge,urge them change non-health dietary behav ior and establish health dietary pattern.