EATING FIRED FOODS TIES TO INCREASED PREVALENCE OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

QUINTERO-LÓPEZ MJ; STAURINI S ; CHACÓN I DEL V ; ROMÁN-PINTOS LM ; BASILE G ; GUERRERO LS ; CLAVELES CASAS FN; CORTEZ MB ; BARRERA FS; LIZZI RJ ; GOMEZ MEJIBA SE

MENDOZA

Congreso; SBC; 2016

Arterial hypertension (AHT) has beenassociated with overweight and obesity; and is a risk factor for cardiovasculardiseases (CVD). Herein we present data from a preliminary study aimed atknowing the prevalence of AHT and CVD, and if there is any association with eatingfried foods in a population of patients in San Luis City, Argentina. In this study102 patients (18.6% men and 81.4% women), between 18-80 years-old, wereincluded and grouped in tertiles (% of patients): 18-35 (55.9), 36-59 (21.6)and 60-80 (22.5). Patients with chronic diseases, mental disabilities, or thosethat do not sign the informed consent were excluded. They were interviewed intheir homes using a validated-food frequency questionnaire, and anthropometricdata were collected. Patients were classified according to their body massindex (BMI, Kg/m2) in underweight (UW, < 18.5, 3.9%), normalweight (NW, 18.5-14.9, 44.1%), overweight (OW, 25-29.9, 31.4%); and type 1 (T1O,30-34.9, 10.8%), type 2 (T2O, 35-39.9, 4.9%) and type 3 (T3O, ³40, 4.9%) obese. The prevalence of AHT in thepopulation studied was of 20.6% and increased with age (by tertiles, 2.0%, 4.9%and 13.7%) and was higher in women than men (1% vs 19.6%). The prevalence ofAHT (%) according to BMI and according to sex (male/female) showed: UW (0/3.9),NW (7.8/36.3), OW(4.9/26.5), T1O(2.0/8.8), T2O(2.0/2.9), T3O(2.0/2.9). Thehigher prevalence of AHT was observed in patients with OW (6.9%) and T1O(5.9%). As for the culinary habits of food preparation was observed that there wasa positive correlation between patients whose use frying their food ≥3 times aweek with CVD (Pearson = 0 260 rho, p = 0.008). This preliminary study suggeststhat eating fried foods is positively associated with AHT and CVD, althoughprospective studies to establish causality between these associations arerequired.