Unhealthy dietary behavior in diabetes mellitus patients

ObjectiveTo describe unhealthy dietary behaviors in diabetes mellitus (DM)patients related to the age, weight, occupation, education for health education in DM patients.MethodsThe unhealthy dietary behaviors were categeorized into irregular diet, drinking, salty taste, and fast eating.The infoun anon was collected with interview.ResultsThe prevalence rate of irregulart diet in the patients aged between 40-49 years was 37.59% and the prevalence rate of alcohol drinking was 35.94%.The rate of the salty taste and faster eating in the patients aged between 50-59 was 34.45 and 34.43%,respectively.The proportions of fast eating, salty teste and alcohol drinking were higher in the patients with BMI>24 than those of other groups.There was no significant correlation between irregular diet and body weight in DM patients The proportions of fast eating, salty teste, and alcohol drinking in cardres were higher than those of patients with other occupanon (P<0.05).The patients with moderate education had higherprevalences of irregular diet, alcohol drinking, and fast eating than patients with lower or higher education.ConclusionThe prevalences of the unhealthy dietary behavior vary among DM patients and health education should be promoted among the patients.