IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIETARY HABITS IN HYPERTENSIVES,HYPERLIPIDEMICS, OBESE, SMOKER INDIVIDUALS AND THE NORMAL POPULATION?

Background: cardiovascular disease has been remained the leading cause of death world-wide.this study has been designed to comprise dietary habits of persons with cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors and those without them.method and materials: this cross-sectional study was performed on samples of a national community- based program for cvd prevention and control entitled isfahan healthy heart program (ihhp) including 12514 adults, aged. 19 years, 6391(51.1%) females and 6123(48.9%) males. all participants were interviewed by trained personnel who used a validated qualitative 48 item food frequency questionnaire (ffq) to determine nutritional status. blood pressure, serum lipids including triglycerides, total cholesterol, ldl-cholesterol and hdl-cholesterol, weight and height were measured and smoking habit was determined by a questionnaire. the frequency of food consumption of persons with and without the risk factors was compared by student t- test. the analysis was performed by spss version 11.5.results: our results show that the prevalence of dyslipidemia, hypertension, smoking and obesity are 54%, 16.8%, 15.1% and 16.8%, respectively. hypertensive and dyslipidemic subjects have significantly more frequent consumption of healthy foods (p < 0.05), in comparison to normotensive and normolipidemic whereas smokers and obese participants have a significantly higher consumption of unhealthy foods (p < 0.01) in comparison to non-smokes and the nonobese subjects.conclusion: our results showed that dyslipidemic and hypertensive individuals have more attention on their dietary habits. in contrast, obese and smoker persons have less attention to a healthy diet.